CALL FOR TESTERS: linux-f8 infrastructure ports

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:35:13 +0400):

> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:26:07 -0300 Aline de Freitas wrote:
>
>> I was looking in the old linux-fontconfig port, and realize that there is a
>> custom fonts.conf in the files dir. So, sure, that was the trick.  
>> Then, I've put
>> this stuff in the new linux-f8-fontconfig, and yes, it works!
>
> Good news, thanks! I'll take care of it later (tomorrow?).

AFAIR the reason for the fonts.conf in there was, that the updated  
native fontconfig was incompatible for the config file with the linux  
one. The goal is that the linux fontconfig uses the native fontconfig  
configuration. We need to investigate this further. Maybe the versions  
are still incompatible.

Note, if you run fc-cache, I think this will create some files in the  
directories where the fonts are. This should not be done with the  
linux version of fc-cache, as this will overwrite the files from the  
native fc-config run. Ideally they should be compatible, but I prefer  
if the fc-cache runs is done by the font ports, not by the  
linux-fontconfig ports. I don't think it is a good idea that the linux  
ports influence the native ports.

Bottom line: I don't think it is as easy as the patch suggests. There  
needs to be some more investigation (Does linux fontconfig fall  
through to the right file for the native fontconfig configuration? Are  
they compatible? ...).

Bye,
Alexander.

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