Unfortunately not at this moment. you may just want to install fonts somewhere under /path/to/sysroot/ and do fc-cache -y /path/to/sysroot and save the mtime there when creating an image. On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for the info. > > Is there any way to tell fontconfig not to check the mtime of font directories? > Since I have full control over fonts installed in the device, and I > would be pregenerating the cache file, I would be happy to tell > fontconfig to just use the cache file without any further checks. > > Other than that, is there a recommended procedure for this? > (pregenerating cache files) > > Thank you, > > Guillermo > > 2016-08-17 4:21 GMT+02:00 Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Fontconnfig is checking the mtime of the directories fonts installed >> to detect the changes. that message means the mtime of >> /usr/share/fonts/X11 is different where the caches originally >> generated. >> >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia >> <guille.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have an embedded system where the list of fonts is known in advance >>> and cannot change. I want to pregenerate the fontconfig cache files >>> for an embedded system in order to avoid long startup times on first >>> boot. >>> >>> I already learned that the cache files are architecture specific so >>> they need to be generated either on the target hardware or using qemu >>> or similar. What I am doing right now is: >>> >>> - Install fonts on target system >>> - Generate cache files (fc-cache -f) >>> - Get generated cache files and add them to the build system >>> - Generate a rootfs image containing the original font files and the >>> cache files. This is the rootfs image that will be installed on the >>> target devices. >>> >>> However when I install this rootfs image to the target system, on >>> first boot the pregenerated cache files are ignored, and the cache >>> files are regenerated again from scratch. >>> >>> Setting FC_DEBUG=16 I see this: >>> >>> $ fc-list >>> FC_DEBUG=16 >>> FcCacheTimeValid dir "/usr/share/fonts/X11" cache checksum 1167623491 >>> dir checksum 1167628683 >>> >>> Why are the checksums different? Is there a way to avoid this? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia >>> guille.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxx >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fontconfig mailing list >>> Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig >> >> >> >> -- >> Akira TAGOH > > > > -- > Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia > guille.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxx -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
