fontconfig madness

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:44:12AM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:27:45 -0700 Steve Kargl wrote:
> > I upgraded my freebsd-current system to  revision 254098
> > and followed this by deleting all installed ports except
> > pkg.  After rebuilding all ports, it seems fontconfig has
> > lost it mind (or someone made a chnage to where fontconfig
> > thinks it should cache fonts).  Every time I run acroread8
> > to view a pdf file, acroread8 creates a new fontconfig/
> > in the CWD instead of using ~/.fontconfig.  How do I (un)fix
> > whatever was changed?
> > 
> > I seem to have the most up-to-date ports.
> > 
> > % pkg info | grep fontconf
> > fontconfig-2.10.93,1           An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
> > linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0     An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows (Linux Fedora 10)
> > % pkg version -vl '<' | grep fontconfig
> 
> I see this too with every linux program that uses fontconfig.

After a few hours of poking around, I've believe that I've
narrowed the issue down to a decision by the developers of
fontconfig to deprecate the default location ~/.fontconfig.
I added a /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf, which contains

<cachedir prefix="~">.fontconfig</cachedir>

to recover the old behavior.


-- 
Steve