Hi Tom, Thanks for the message. You are indeed right. I pushed a fix out. Please check: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/ Also, I highly recommend upgrading to 2.7.3. behdad On 11/09/2009 12:33 PM, Dalton, Tom wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the fontconfig-2.7.1 for linux. When I run ./configure --help, it says that the default cachedir is /var/cache/fontconfig and that the default confdir is /etc/fonts. However, this has misled me somewhat - I have installed a newer copy of fontconfig than the defautl on my RHEL system, and I installed it to a non-standard location by setting the --prefix=X configure flag. However, this has also changed the cache and config dirs that seem to be hardcoded into the binaries. If I want to install my new version on to a new machine, then when I run many fontconfig operations, it tries to recreate the ${prefix}/var/cache/fontconfig directory. > > So the default for the cache dir is not strictly /var/cache/fontconfig but actually ${prefix}/var/cache/fontconfig, and similarly for the conf dir. (But only if you change prefix, as the default for prefix is supposedly /usr/local). If I want my new version to use the 'normal' cache and conf dirs then as well as setting my prefix, I also have to set --with-cache-dir=/var/cache/fontconfig and --with-conf-dir=/etc/fonts. > > Is this correct? If so then I think it's a (minor) bug with the documentation... > > Regards, > > Tom Dalton > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
