On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, William Kyngesburye wrote: [...]
- cairo also requires fontconfig to be used with freetype. GRASS is handling font paths and configuration itself, so I don't see the point of this. I built fonconfig for my old library binaries once, but it was never used in the GIS packages and there were some build problems (I forget what), so I removed it. OSX X11 has fontconfig (and freetype), but I don't want to depend on an X11 installation on OSX.
ISTR a report that g.mkfontcap found some fonts on OS X that fontconfig didn't detect (that was a pleasant surprise at the time). Is that still the case and, if so, is it relevant? Probably avoiding too much "DIY" is best - if g.mkfontcap just duplicates what fontconfig does it can be done away with and Cairo can find the fonts itself - but OTOH it does seem to have worked very well as a cross-platform solution to finding available fonts.
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