[Fontconfig] Re: fc-cache sometimes looses fonts

Patrick Lam plam at MIT.EDU
Wed Oct 26 07:07:07 EST 2005


James Cloos wrote:

> when I ran 'fc-cache -fv .' in /usr/local/share/fonts.  Re-running
> with 'fc-cache -fv /usr/local/share/fonts' got the correct results.

The responsible code is at fcfreetype.c:1290.  However, I'm not quite
sure how to fix it: it seems difficult to get a full pathname from a
filename.  Or I could just store the filename without any pathname
whatsoever.  Opinions?

BTW, anyone read the mail about config files vs. caches?

pat




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