[Fontconfig] Windows cache dir

[Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello]

Em 21 de abril de 2012 17:01, Vincent Torri <vtorri at univ-evry.fr> escreveu:
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> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello wrote:
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>> I use GIMP in Windows 7 (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net) and for a
>> long time I do not see the fontconfig default behavior of puting the
>> cache in the %TMP% directory optimal. (not only for GIMP but other
>> apps too)
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>> http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-user/12287-Loading-indexing-fonts-everytime-GIMP-starts.html#msg56823
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>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3289135&group_id=66938&atid=516295
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>> The current behaviour comes from this commit I think:
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>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/configure.in?id=8a3dc4880c1182ea446cdbc0885e956c6517cf83
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>> I am not a programmer, but I have found that VLC people already fixed
>> that with a patch:
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>> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=extras/contrib/src/Patches/fontconfig.patch;h=79f7355a2f8a869489c1d8d5cbd4deaeb6ae05f7;hb=1330bc95866006707480ec8dfdddb0bd9d44386b
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>> SHGetFolderPath:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762181%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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>> It would be very welcome if the above patch got merged in fontconfig.
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> I don't think that it can be merged in its current shape:
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> 1) no need to patch Makefile.in as it is generated by automake
> 2) Why is the import library not installed ?
> 3) I didn't look at the fontconfig code, but in fcinit.c, one must be sure
> that the windows specific code is correctly guarded.

Yes, probably it is specific to VLC. However, the SHGetFolderPath bits
in fcinit.c (correctly guarded) can be used.

Marcos