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

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

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
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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.
 
 Joerg