CALL FOR TESTERS: linux-f8 infrastructure ports

[Aline de Freitas]

Em Friday 11 April 2008 08:34:04 Boris Samorodov escreveu:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:26:17 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > 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.
>
> As for me I think that they should be compatible (as I recall the
> configuration file format changed at fontconfig 2.4.0).
>
> > 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.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > 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? ...).
>
> I can't reproduce font problems which Aline has (seems because I have
> some fonts at !/.fonts). But his success (and a patch where font
> directories were listed) gave me some food too think. And now I'm sure
> that all we need is to provide at /compat/linux/etc a link to the
> directory with native FreeBSD configuration of fontconfig. Then
> only native fc-cache, fonts, font ports, font directories will be
> used.
>
>
> WBR

Hi Boris,

I've done the symlink, and it works!

[aline at anderson-herzer:~]$ ls -lh /compat/linux/etc/fonts
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel          20 Abr 11 
08:39 /compat/linux/etc/fonts -> /usr/local/etc/fonts/

Thanks,
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