On 7/26/07, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > Doing a "./configure --prefix=/usr" will generate a fonts.conf that > searches for fonts in /usr/share/fonts and some X11 fonts directory, > but completely ignores /usr/local/share/fonts. Any software that > installs itself to /usr/local and installs some custom fonts won't be > able to even find them unless the user is aware of the problem and > edits fonts.conf to include it > (http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/fontconfig/2003-October/000690.html). > > Man and info look for documents in /usr/local, gcc and binutils look for > headers and libraries in /usr/local, the freedesktop specs support > menus/icons/MIME types in /usr/local, and yet fontconfig completely > ignores /usr/local. I am aware that some Linux distributions provide > fonts.conf with <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> included, but many > don't, and not only is it better for you to support this as a matter > of policy, but it's also easier to fix the problem at the core than to > run tests on every distribution and persuade them all to do this. > > Here (and attached) is a proposed patch for fontconfig-2.4.2 that adds > /usr/local/share/fonts to the font search paths. Changes to > ./configure are not included. > > --- a/configure.in 2006-12-03 01:24:39.000000000 +0200 > +++ b/configure.in 2007-07-26 07:56:31.000000000 +0200 > @@ -426,6 +426,14 @@ > ;; > esac > done > + case x"$FC_ADD_FONTS" in > + x) > + FC_ADD_FONTS="/usr/local/share/fonts" > + ;; > + *) > + FC_ADD_FONTS="/usr/local/share/fonts,$FC_ADD_FONTS" > + ;; > + esac > AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(FC_ADD_FONTS,"$add_fonts",[Additional font directories]) > ;; > no) > > Please let me know if this is okay or if there is a better way. > > Thank you > Damjan Jovanovic > > You know, some feedback would be nice. Is this the right place to send patches? Is my patch okay? Damjan Jovanovic _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
