Needless to say, when I build Gimp, I don't have fontconfig issues.
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Michael Henning <dra...@darkrefraction.com>wrote: > As much fun as I'm sure you're all having debugging this, I think I've > seen this before. I already fixed this with my windows nightlies > (actually, scl reported it, so I guess he forgot about that). > > There are two potential issues: > 1. fontconfig includes an absolute path to its config directory, so > when you move the files to a windows system it cannot find them. > > 2. The config files themselves are symlinks, which may cause them to > not exist on windows, depending on how the files are packaged. > > The solutions: > 1. Modify etc/fonts/fonts.conf to remove the absolute path and > replace it with a relative one (it should just say "conf.d", not > long/path/and/then/conf.d). I compile fontconfig with this patch: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/build/windows/jhbuild/patches/fontconfig-fix-config-dir.patch > You can achieve the same effect by modifying the config files by hand. > > 2. Ensure the files in etc/fonts/conf.d/ exist. If not, copy the > files from share/fontconfig/conf.avail into that folder. > > At the time I fixed this, Jernej's builds did not exhibit the problem > because they used an older version of fontconfig. I did not report > this upstream because it's a configuration issue, but now that I think > about it, the defaults should perhaps be changed on windows (or maybe > when cross compiling). > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Sven Claussner <scl.gp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 22.09.2013 at 12:32 P.M., Jehan Pagès wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks Sven, but that does not say what versions are used on GIMP > >>> 2.8.4, official build, which was my question. :-) > >> > >> > >> Sorry for being a bit terse, I'm in a rush ;-) > >> > >> You can find the official 2.8.4 build at > >> > >> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.4/ > >> > >> Running GIMP with the -v or --version parameter shows the versions > >> of the used libraries. > >> > > > > Oh thanks, I did not know this one! Jernej actually already sent me an > > archive with the dependency tree of his build. I was planning to check > > the .pc files. Fortunately I did not start. And your solution will be > > easier *and* more accurate. :-) > > > >> You can also find the 2.8.4 sources at the Web-Git site: > >> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp > > > > Yes the source, I already have them, no problem. :-) > > Thanks again. > > > > Jehan > > > >> Kind regards, > >> > >> Sven > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-developer-list mailing list > > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
