Re: pkg/39632: fontconfig w/ modular X11 finds no fonts

[Jörn Clausen <joern%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39632; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= <joern%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/39632: fontconfig w/ modular X11 finds no fonts
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:19:32 +0200

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/39632; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/39632: fontconfig w/ modular X11 finds no fonts
 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:10:39 +0200
 > 
 >  On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 08:30:01AM +0000, 
 > joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost wrote:
 >  > When building font/fontconfig with modular X11, the search path giveno
 >  > to configure is
 >  > 
 >  > ${PREFIX}/share/ghostscript/fonts
 >  > 
 >  > but fontconfig has no dependency on fonts/ghostscript-fonts.
 >  
 >  It shouldn't depend on ghostscript-fonts either.
 >  
 >  > The other path configured by default seems to be either
 >  > 
 >  > ${X11BASE}/lib/X11/fonts
 >  > 
 >  > or
 >  > 
 >  > ${LOCALBASE}/lib/X11/fonts
 >  
 >  ..which is the default location for X11 fonts. What is your complain?
 >  That you do a partial modular Xorg installation, but didn't install any
 >  fonts? fontconfig is an indexing library, it should not depend on
 >  arbitrary font packages.
 
 My complaint is, that I install an application like gimp, start it and 
 no text is visible anywhere. If all other X11 dependecies are resolved 
 automatically, why not this one? The least would be a hint to install a 
 basic set of fonts manually - and a suggestion, which package could be a 
 good starting point.
 
 Joern
 
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