Re: ChangeLog/1.4419 fails to compile correctly

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
>
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > I do not have any experience with fontconfig, but this path should be
> > > queried, right?
> >
> > yes. Question is: how.
> >
> > the easiest is probably to do
> >
> >  locate c059033l.pfb
> >
> > in configure.
>
>
> Sorry, if you want to stay portable you better not rely on the presence of 
> locate.
>
> What I meant with "queried" was: now that we link in that BPOC named 
> fontconfig, whose purpose is to ease the font configuration, fontconfig 
> should tell us where the font is, right? Is not a call to 
> FcConfigGetFontDirs() the correct thing? So, configure should write, 
> compile and run something like this:

> If this program succeeds, it prints the (first) directory containing the 
> desired font. If it fails, the font could not be found.

I think you can directly ask fontconfig to locate a font for "Century 
Schoolbook", and retrieve the filename. However, this is IMO over the 
top.  I propose that people without locate just use configure with 
--enable-ncsb-path

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