[Fontconfig] Re: fc-cache sometimes looses fonts

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Tue Nov 1 07:54:47 EST 2005


>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Lam <plam at MIT.EDU> writes:

Patrick> So I was suggesting this slightly evil thing.  If you call
Patrick> FcPatternGetString for an FC_FILE, then fontconfig will
Patrick> silently append the path of the cache file to the path of the
Patrick> file. ... ... ...  The result is that no changes are visible
Patrick> from the outside; no version number bumping or recompilation
Patrick> required.

OK.  I get it now.  Looks perfect.

-JimC





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