Re: FW: xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf depends on existing fonts installation

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

O.k. If the problem still exists, contact Keith Packard directly. It's
more than likely he missed the post too. But this code is his domain
and he's been banging on it a lot lately.

I'm sure Keith will respond.

Alan.

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:39:24AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> Hmm... as usual I misspoke... I was bitching about the ``findfonts'' script
> which runs on the installed fonts rather than on fonts being built.
> 
> I'll have to look into the font build utility problem.
> 
> I hate it when I get confused.  Anyway, here is what I wrote to the XFree86
> devel list.
> 
> Harold
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt
> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 7:44 PM
> To: xf-devel
> Subject: xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf depends on existing fonts
> installation
> 
> 
> I don't understand why xc/lib/fontconfig/fonts.conf runs the script
> xc/lib/fontconfig/findfonts which looks at the *currently installed fonts*.
> That doesn't make any sense to me.  Shouldn't you be able to build XFree86
> on a machine that doesn't have any fonts installed, or for that matter, any
> piece of XFree86 installed?
> 
> The problem that I'm running into on Cygwin is that even if
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts exits but /usr/share/fonts doesn't exist then the
> findfonts script fails because 'find' cannot find that directory.  I'm not
> certain that this is a Cygwin only problem, but it is the only platform that
> I am building on.
> 
> I propose that one of two things be done:
> 
> 1) Do not execute the scripts that do things for *installed* fonts, as this
> makes no sense.
> 
> 2) Or, change the findfonts script to silently fail if either of the fonts
> directories cannot be found, thus removing a non-error error from build
> logs.
> 
> 
> Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed to the devel list.
> 
> A snippet of my build log follows.
> 
> 
> Harold Hunt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/Administrator/x-devel/build/std/lib/fontconfig
> /fc-list'
> rm -f fonts.conf
> sh ./setfontdirs
> find: /usr/share/fonts: No such file or directory
> ed: not found
> make: *** [fonts.conf] Error 127