[Fontconfig] Problems installing 2.6.0 on Vista

[Nicolae Ghimbovschi]

May be that it doesn't have write rights. (failed to write cache)
Make sure that the process runs as with administrative rights.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:36, John C. Turnbull <ozemale at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> I am trying to build FC 2.6.0 using MinGW on a Vista machine.
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> The “configure” and “make” commands run perfectly but when I run “make
> install” it crashes at this point:
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> C:/Windows/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1159 fonts, 0 dirs
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> C:/Users/Qu0ll/AppData/Local/Temp/fontconfig/cache: cleaning cache directory
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> D:\MSYS\1.0\local\bin\fc-cache.exe: failed
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> C:/Windows/fonts: failed to write cache
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> make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
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> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Qu0ll/fontconfig-2.6.0'
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> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
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> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Qu0ll/fontconfig-2.6.0'
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> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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> I first thought this might have something to do with Vista UAC but disabling
> that hasn’t helped.  It appears that it’s trying to write to a folder on the
> C: drive and failing.  Perhaps it needs admin privileges though I thought it
> would inherit those of the Windows user which is an administrator.
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> Anyway, when I run the test program it fails the basic check.  When I run
> fc-list on its own it says it can’t find the default configuration file.
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> How can I resolve these issues?
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> Thanks,
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> -JCT
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