[Fontconfig] No fc-cache(1) doc in 2.3.92?

Patrick Lam plam at MIT.EDU
Mon Jan 2 09:15:05 PST 2006


On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Jim Osborn wrote:

> Checking the log of ``make install'' I find many copies, in forms
> such as .pdf, .txt, (and even .5) of "fonts-conf" which says
> "See Also: fc-cache(1), fc-match(1), fc-list(1)."
>
> But there's no fc-cache(1) or fc-list(1).  It did install
> fc-match(1), which refers to fontconfig(3), which is also not there.
> I don't find any "fontconfig.3" or any of the other relevant files
> listed above in the doc/ subdirectory of the 2.3.92 tarball.

fc-cache(1) and fc-list(1) exist for me.  I'm not sure why theydon't exist 
for you.  fontconfig(3) does not exist for me.  Patches are welcome.

> The fc-match(1) manpage has this on the bottom line; "__vendorversion__"
> I don't know if that points to something I've messed up; shouldn't it
> say something like "2.3.92"?

It says __vendorversion__ for me.

> I also notice in the 2.3.92 fonts-conf files (.txt, .html, and .5 flavors)
> say, in the Cache section:
>  The default for this file is ``~/.fonts.cache-version'', where
>  version is the font configuration file version number (currently 1).
> But fc-cache, run as part of the install process, made fonts.cache-2
> files in the directories listed in local.conf.

I've updated nd committed that change.  Thanks!

pat



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