> This seems precisely to be the problem. I do have a ~/.fontconfig > directory containing cache files. When I delete it, the performance of the > command line script is just as slow as the cgi script until the next time > the command is run (e.g. after the cache is remade). So I guess the > question becomes: how do I get apache and the CGI script to see and use the > .fontconfig caches? > > > > Are you running on a Mac? Perhaps there are no system fontconfig caches? >
I am running on a Mac, OS 10.5.6. I don't know if there are such caches or where they'd be. > > Try updating the fontconfig cache as root: > > sudo fc-cache > I did this. I observed no difference in performance. > > Or try the same command as the user running the cgi-bin programs (apache?) > > Same here. > > John >
