Re: Building 2.8.1 segfaults if ~/.rh-fontconfig does not exist.

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Quentin Spencer schreef:
> I'm trying to package 2.8.1 for Fedora Extras. I am getting the following error
> during a build:
>
>
> Initializing FontConfig...
> Rebuilding FontConfig cache /home/qspencer/.rh-fontconfig/.fonts.cache-2. this
> may take a while...
> adding font directory:
> /home/qspencer/rpm/BUILD/lilypond-2.8.1/out/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/
> adding font directory:
> /home/qspencer/rpm/BUILD/lilypond-2.8.1/out/share/lilypond/current/fonts/type1/
> Building font database.
> /bin/sh: line 1: 21855 Segmentation fault     
> /home/qspencer/rpm/BUILD/lilypond-2.8.1/lily/out/lilypond --verbose
> /home/qspencer/rpm/BUILD/lilypond-2.8.1/ly/generate-documentation
> make[2]: *** [out/lilypond-internals.texi] Error 139
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/qspencer/rpm/BUILD/lilypond-2.8.1/Documentation/user'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/qspencer/rpm/BUILD/lilypond-2.8.1/Documentation'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> After looking at lily/fontconfig.cc to see what was happening, it appears that
> it is trying to create and write to the file ~/.rh-fontconfig/.fonts.cache-2,
> whether or not ~/.rh-fontconfig exists. If it doesn't exist, it crashes; if it
> does exist, everything is fine and the build finishes. In the Fedora Extras
> build system, the build is exectuted in a temporary build directory and the font
> cache directory will never exist.

thanks, should be fixed now.


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