<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Cache file update fails on Windows (also Cygwin)" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99360#c2">Comment # 2</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Cache file update fails on Windows (also Cygwin)" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99360">bug 99360</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:trueroad@trueroad.jp" title="Masamichi Hosoda <trueroad@trueroad.jp>"> Masamichi Hosoda</a> <pre>Would you merge my patch? This issue is very major and serious to use fontconfig on Windows. Certainly, my patch is not perfect. However, the current fontconfig always fails to update the cache. With my patch, fontconfig almost succeeds to update the cache. It obviously improves the issue, in my humble opinion. W32TeX (a TeX binary distribution for Windows) has applied my patch. <a href="http://w32tex.org/ChangeLog">http://w32tex.org/ChangeLog</a> has the following description. ...snip... [2017/01/15] ...snip... (02) xetex-w32.tar.xz Apply a patch for fontconfig by M. Hosoda: <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Cache file update fails on Windows (also Cygwin)" href="show_bug.cgi?id=99360">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99360</a>. Now XeTeX can update font cache files. ...snip... (04) win64/xetex-w64.tar.xz Apply a patch for fontconfig by M. Hosoda: <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Cache file update fails on Windows (also Cygwin)" href="show_bug.cgi?id=99360">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99360</a>. Now XeTeX can update font cache files. ...snip... In W32TeX, the issue has been resolved, and problems caused by the patch have not raised.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>