Hi Nicolae, I tried running it as Administrator but the result is the same. Any other ideas? Thanks, John > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolae Ghimbovschi [mailto:xfreebird@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2009 19:21 > To: John C. Turnbull > Cc: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.6.0 on Vista > > May be that it doesn't have write rights. (failed to write cache) > Make sure that the process runs as with administrative rights. > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:36, John C. Turnbull > <ozemale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am trying to build FC 2.6.0 using MinGW on a Vista machine. > > > > > > > > The ?configure? and ?make? commands run perfectly but when I run > ?make > > install? it crashes at this point: > > > > > > > > C:/Windows/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1159 fonts, 0 dirs > > > > C:/Users/Qu0ll/AppData/Local/Temp/fontconfig/cache: cleaning cache > directory > > > > D:\MSYS\1.0\local\bin\fc-cache.exe: failed > > > > C:/Windows/fonts: failed to write cache > > > > make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1 > > > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Qu0ll/fontconfig-2.6.0' > > > > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > > > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Qu0ll/fontconfig-2.6.0' > > > > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > > > > > > > I first thought this might have something to do with Vista UAC but > disabling > > that hasn?t helped. It appears that it?s trying to write to a folder > on the > > C: drive and failing. Perhaps it needs admin privileges though I > thought it > > would inherit those of the Windows user which is an administrator. > > > > > > > > Anyway, when I run the test program it fails the basic check. When I > run > > fc-list on its own it says it can?t find the default configuration > file. > > > > > > > > How can I resolve these issues? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > -JCT > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fontconfig mailing list > > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > > > > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
