Re: [e-users] evas can't load the 'Sans' font

[Christopher M. <cpm...@co...>]

In the e/trunk/evas directory, check that config.h contains:

/* have fontconfig searching capabilities */
#define HAVE_FONTCONFIG 1

to make sure evas was built with fontconfig support.

dh

On 08/18/2010 08:24 PM, Christopher Michael wrote:
> Have ttf-bitstream-vera installed ?
>
> dh
>
> On 08/18/2010 08:08 PM, Noah Rømer wrote:
>> <<<< Enlightenment Error>>>>
>> Enlightenment found Evas can't load the 'Sans' font. Check Evas has
>> fontconfig
>> support and system fontconfig defines a 'Sans' font.
>>
>> I recently did a large update of my system (Gentoo), and now, when
>> enlightenment tries to start, I get the above message. I'm running the
>> 0.16.999.49898 snapshot, and have tried recompiling all e17 related
>> packages, just to be sure.
>>
>> There are a variety of Sans-Serif fonts installed (the same ones as when
>> e17 didn't complain). Evas is compiled with fontconfig support turned
>> on. The fontconfig version is 2.8.0 .
>>
>> `fc-match Sans` says
>> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
>>
>> I know this has come up before, but I've not been able to find a
>> solution referenced. Has anyone else run into this and found a solution?
>>
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