Andrew Benton wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> Thanks for the information. It may be a good idea to add a subset of X >> fonts (namely, TTF and OTF ones), something like: >> >> --with-add-fonts="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" > > > That assumes that X is installed in /usr/X11R6, but xorg-7 could be > installed to any prefix. Fontconfig has to be configured and installed > before X. The only way to make this work is to install fonts in some > standard location for every version of X windows. If we can't use > /usr/share/fonts as our standard location for fonts, how about something > like /usr/share/blfs-fonts? We could configure each version of X to > install its fonts in /usr/share/blfs-fonts and configure Fontconfig with > > --with-add-fonts=/usr/share/blfs-fonts/OTF,/usr/share/blfs-fonts/TTF > > It's a lot more messy than installing the fonts in /usr/share/fonts.
We might want to simplify this to installing X fonts in /usr/share/bitmap-fonts and then moving non-bitmap font directoies to /usr/share/fonts. Then no changes are required for fontconfig and it has the advantage of being more obvious to the user what is going on. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
