[Fontconfig] Problems installing 2.6.0 on Vista

[John C. Turnbull]

Hi Nicolae,

I tried running it as Administrator but the result is the same.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolae Ghimbovschi [mailto:xfreebird at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2009 19:21
> To: John C. Turnbull
> Cc: fontconfig at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Fontconfig] Problems installing 2.6.0 on Vista
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > The “configure” and “make” commands run perfectly but when I run
> “make
> > install” it crashes at this point:
> >
> >
> >
> > C:/Windows/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1159 fonts, 0 dirs
> >
> > C:/Users/Qu0ll/AppData/Local/Temp/fontconfig/cache: cleaning cache
> directory
> >
> > D:\MSYS\1.0\local\bin\fc-cache.exe: failed
> >
> > C:/Windows/fonts: failed to write cache
> >
> > make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
> >
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Qu0ll/fontconfig-2.6.0'
> >
> > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> >
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Qu0ll/fontconfig-2.6.0'
> >
> > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > How can I resolve these issues?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > -JCT
> >
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