[Fontconfig] Problems with configuring fontconfig

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Apr 2 14:51:20 EST 2003


Around 0 o'clock on Apr 2, Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra wrote:

> Thank you Keith.
> But running fc-cache is taking 100% CPU and simply never stops in
> my PIII-1Ghz. I quit after 10 minutes. Did I quit too soon ?

You may have a broken version of FreeType that is confused by compressed 
.pcf files.  Fontconfig 2.2 will probably not bother to include such 
directories by default as many (most?) users won't want to see bitmap 
fonts in any circumstances.

-keith






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