Package: libfontconfig1
Version: 2.3.2-1
Followup-For: Bug #314720
FWIW, the following minimal program can be used to time the fontconfig
startup:
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>
int main()
{
int err = FcInit();
if(err == FcFalse){
printf("Couldn't initialize fontconfig lib\n");
exit(err);
}
return 0;
}
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10-30 seconds was a bit optimistic, with cold caches it's even taking
quite a bit longer (~2 minutes).
I also forgot to tag it as upstream, as this is certainly not
debian-specific. :-)
The following patch fixes the problem for me by prefixing the hostname:
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--- fontconfig-2.3.2/src/fccfg.c 2005-03-09 05:56:35.000000000 +0100
+++ fontconfig-2.3.2.patched/src/fccfg.c 2005-06-18 02:24:05.000000000
+0200
@@ -77,8 +77,24 @@
config->cache = 0;
if (FcConfigHome())
- if (!FcConfigSetCache (config, (FcChar8 *) ("~/" FC_USER_CACHE_FILE)))
+ {
+ int templen = 200;
+ FcChar8 *hostname = calloc(1, templen);
+ FcChar8 *temp;
+ FcChar8 *cachefile;
+
+ gethostname(hostname, templen);
+ temp = FcStrPlus("~/.", hostname);
+ cachefile = FcStrPlus(temp, FC_USER_CACHE_FILE);
+ FcStrFree(temp);
+ free(hostname);
+
+ if (!FcConfigSetCache (config, cachefile))
+ {
+ FcStrFree(cachefile);
goto bail8;
+ }
+ }
#ifdef _WIN32
if (config->cache == 0)
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12-ac7-vs1.9.5-htbatm-imq
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages libfontconfig1 depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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