[Fink-devel] fontconfig-path incompatible with xquartz

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

The xquartz X11 update packages have switched from
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.conf for the fontconfig conf file to
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig/fonts.conf

Don't ask me why, probably because of a general "backward comaptibility 
is so boring" attitude. See the thread from
<http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2008-September/001064.html>
to
<http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2008-September/001072.html>
on the xquartz-dev mailing list.

The change happened already several months ago, I think in 
xquartz-2.2.0. And since Fink is now recommending to install the xquartz 
updates as a cure to the incompatibilities between Apple's stock X11 and 
Apple's stock xcode tools, the fontconfig-path package needs to adapt to 
this situation. Note that stock 10.5.5 X11 still uses the old directory 
for fonts.conf.

I don't know the fontconfig xml based lingo, so I don't know if the 
<include> directive in /sw/share/fontconfig-path/fontconfig-path.conf 
can be conditionalized on the existence of one fonts.conf file or 
another. It is probably easier to do this in a PostInst script.

In any case, the current situation is broken. If you run any executable 
that uses X11 fonts and fontconfig on an xquartz-updated X11 
installation, you get

Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file 
"/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.conf"

and the fonts are not loaded.

-- 
Martin