Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> writes:

> The location ${sysconfdir}/X11/fontpath.d is unknown at configuration time
> (only at make time) as evidenced by the configuration output:
>
>     checking for ${prefix}/etc/X11/fontpath.d... no
>
> Unlike font-util for the X fonts, there is no mechanism to query where
> fontpath.d is. Fedora have chosen /etc/X11 and others have followed, but this
> is not a standard. It might also be installed at another location, it may or 
> may
> not be under the xserver installation prefix. We just don't know. Debian does
> not use this at all.
>
> Distros are using --with-default-path when they support fontpath.d, so they
> never relied on the server default as it never worked.

I'd like to get some review from people familiar with the distro
packaging process to understand if this analysis is accurate; I haven't
any way to know what the effect of this change would be otherwise.

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