[Fontconfig] font cache file information

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Mar 28 14:07:41 PDT 2011


On 03/22/11 23:41, NEHA GUPTA wrote:
> 
> *>> Generally-speaking, no.  Because the cache files are architecture dependent.*
> 
> My understanding was cache file names are architecture dependent but not the
> content of cache file, Isn't it so ?
> 
> Cache file just have FcPattern like information which would be independent of
> architecture.

The exact binary format of the contents is arch dependent.  This has been
improved on master.  If the two architectures assume the same arch suffix,
then the cache files can indeed be shared.  Not otherwise.


behdad


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