ports/170108: x11-fonts/libfontenc: library in the package searches bogus dir for encodings.dir

Hiroto Kagotani hiroto.kagotani at gmail.com
Thu Jul 26 13:50:12 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR ports/170108; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hiroto Kagotani <hiroto.kagotani at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, hiroto.kagotani at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/170108: x11-fonts/libfontenc: library in the package
 searches bogus dir for encodings.dir
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:43:20 +0900

 > To fix, it will be also required to rebuild encodings.dir file using mkfontdir,
 > possibly because the library assumes absolute paths.
 
 Sorry, the reason was wrong.
 It is that x11-fonts/encodings creates encodings.dir file including
 *.enc and *.enc.gz files, while it installs only *.enc.gz files.
 When libfontenc searches for an encoding file, it fails on the first miss.
 
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 Hiroto Kagotani
 <hiroto.kagotani at gmail.com>


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