[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 69836] New: fonts.conf.in update for Windows cross-compiling

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69836

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 69836
          Assignee: fontconfig-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: fonts.conf.in update for Windows cross-compiling
        QA Contact: freedesktop at behdad.org
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Windows (All)
          Reporter: jehan at zemarmot.net
          Hardware: Other
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: conf
           Product: fontconfig

Hi,

I am a GIMP developer. We had a problem when cross-compiling GIMP for Windows
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708110).

This was just a configuration issue, with the configuration files in conf.d/*
being inaccessible because the path set by the autotools in fonts.conf during
compilation were obviously different once the tree was moved over from a Unix
to a Windows system.
This simple patch would fix it for us:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/build/windows/jhbuild/patches/fontconfig-fix-config-dir.patch

Since it is a configuration issue, it could be argued that it is not a bug.
Still I feel that cross-compiling fontconfig would be quite common. And if our
tree for GIMP has a patch for fontconfig, it may mean that it would be worth
updating upstream too, no? :-)

I would propose 2 changes:

1/ Replace @CONFIGDIR@ by "conf.d", and not a full path, only when
cross-compiling for Windows like in our patch.

2/ and/or having a warning message when an <include>d directory set in
fonts.conf does not exist, so that at least there is some feedback from the
software to understand easily the issue (otherwise it was hard to diagnose what
was going wrong). :-)

Does it make sense?

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