[Fontconfig] Cache and config files

[Dalton, Tom]

Hi,

I'm using the fontconfig-2.7.1 for linux. When I run ./configure --help, it says that the default cachedir is /var/cache/fontconfig and that the default confdir is /etc/fonts. However, this has misled me somewhat - I have installed a newer copy of fontconfig than the defautl on my RHEL system, and I installed it to a non-standard location by setting the --prefix=X configure flag. However, this has also changed the cache and config dirs that seem to be hardcoded into the binaries. If I want to install my new version on to a new machine, then when I run many fontconfig operations, it tries to recreate the ${prefix}/var/cache/fontconfig directory.

So the default for the cache dir is not strictly /var/cache/fontconfig but actually ${prefix}/var/cache/fontconfig, and similarly for the conf dir. (But only if you change prefix, as the default for prefix is supposedly /usr/local). If I want my new version to use the 'normal' cache and conf dirs then as well as setting my prefix, I also have to set --with-cache-dir=/var/cache/fontconfig and --with-conf-dir=/etc/fonts.

Is this correct? If so then I think it's a (minor) bug with the documentation...

Regards,

Tom Dalton