On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 09:00:07AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> [I've reported this in the fontconfig bugzilla also.]
>
> This very line in configure.in is the problem:
>
> fc_cachedir=`eval echo "${localstatedir}/cache/"${PACKAGE}`
>
> In the `configure' script created with autoconf 2.63 (and probably
> other versions too), if the `--prefix' command line option is not
> given, the value of `$localstatedir' is not correctly expanded yet;
> `$prefix' is still `NONE'. This leads to compilation commands like
>
> ../doltcompile gcc \
> ... \
> -DFC_CACHEDIR='"NONE/var/cache/fontconfig"' \
> ...
>
> and to
>
> <cachedir>NONE/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
>
> in /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
>
> Until this has been fixed in the sources, a simple workaround is to
> always call configure's `--prefix' option.
I think the patch below will take care of it. If it was substituted by
configure into, say, fontconfig.pc, it would be more trouble. But we can
just let make DTRT.
--
Dan
>From 77c83397c79e2f0c7a33493913226871028cdc37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:43:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Let make expand fc_cachedir/FC_CACHEDIR
Since configure doesn't substitute the cachedir value anywhere, we can
let make expand it, where it will be done correctly.
Signed-off-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
---
configure.in | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index e2e3f06..b0df252 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ no|yes)
if test "$os_win32" = "yes"; then
fc_cachedir="WINDOWSTEMPDIR_FONTCONFIG_CACHE"
else
- fc_cachedir=`eval echo "${localstatedir}/cache/"${PACKAGE}`
+ fc_cachedir='${localstatedir}/cache/${PACKAGE}'
fi
;;
*)
--
1.5.6.6
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