[Fontconfig] /usr/local support

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On 7/26/07, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Doing a "./configure --prefix=/usr" will generate a fonts.conf that
> searches for fonts in /usr/share/fonts and some X11 fonts directory,
> but completely ignores /usr/local/share/fonts. Any software that
> installs itself to /usr/local and installs some custom fonts won't be
> able to even find them unless the user is aware of the problem and
> edits fonts.conf to include it
> (http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/fontconfig/2003-October/000690.html).
>
> Man and info look for documents in /usr/local, gcc and binutils look for
> headers and libraries in /usr/local, the freedesktop specs support
> menus/icons/MIME types in /usr/local, and yet fontconfig completely
> ignores /usr/local. I am aware that some Linux distributions provide
> fonts.conf with <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> included, but many
> don't, and not only is it better for you to support this as a matter
> of policy, but it's also easier to fix the problem at the core than to
> run tests on every distribution and persuade them all to do this.
>
> Here (and attached) is a proposed patch for fontconfig-2.4.2 that adds
> /usr/local/share/fonts to the font search paths. Changes to
> ./configure are not included.
>
> --- a/configure.in      2006-12-03 01:24:39.000000000 +0200
> +++ b/configure.in      2007-07-26 07:56:31.000000000 +0200
> @@ -426,6 +426,14 @@
>                         ;;
>                 esac
>         done
> +       case x"$FC_ADD_FONTS" in
> +       x)
> +               FC_ADD_FONTS="/usr/local/share/fonts"
> +               ;;
> +       *)
> +               FC_ADD_FONTS="/usr/local/share/fonts,$FC_ADD_FONTS"
> +               ;;
> +       esac
>         AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(FC_ADD_FONTS,"$add_fonts",[Additional font directories])
>         ;;
>  no)
>
> Please let me know if this is okay or if there is a better way.
>
> Thank you
> Damjan Jovanovic
>
>

You know, some feedback would be nice. Is this the right place to send
patches? Is my patch okay?

Damjan Jovanovic