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
>
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