--On Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:31 PM -0400 Patrick Lam <plam@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
Is there any way to *not* use/disable the {localstatedir}/fontconfig
directory?
We use AFS at Stanford, and I do not want this created or used at all.
I tried making this be /var/cache/fontconfig, but this gives me
permission denied errors on make install, and in any case, I want to
make sure that fontconfig never tries to use whatever directory I set it
to.
First of all, {localstatedir}/fontconfig should only be writable by root.
Only fc-cache creates files in that directory.
Okay. I guess we'll never be using fc-cache (I've built this for gd, more
than anything else, which only wants the libraries).
If {localstatedir}/fontconfig does not exist or is not writeable, then
fc-cache will write files to the font directories themselves (if it can).
Yeah, this won't happen either, given the RW/RO nature of AFS.
When fontconfig-using applications run and don't find cache information
in {localstatedir}/fontconfig or the font directories, they create a
per-user cache file which lives in that user's home directory.
Okay. Still not the most optimal behavior, but acceptable I guess.
You have found a bug in fontconfig in that make install fails if it can't
make the {localstatedir}/fontconfig directory. I don't know how to fix
that bug, but I'd welcome patches. You just need to find the line where
it creates the directory and add a -; the complication is that we go
through automake, etc.
Well, the other part of the problem here that I see, is that it hard codes
the word "cache", too (at least in the release I'm using):
configure.in:pkgcachedir='${localstatedir}/cache/'${PACKAGE}
which I think is a very bad practice. ;)
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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