Changing default path to install fonts?
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Tue Oct 6 14:43:47 PDT 2009
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 13:55:56 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> I'm testing a fontutil.m4 update that will change the XORG_FONTDIR macro to use:
>
> # Offer a --with-fontdir flag to control directory for font installation
> # Default is the specified subdir of the font parent directory.
> # Font parent directory is the first found from:
> # --with-fontparentdir
> # pkg-config --variable=fontdir fontutil
> # ${datadir}/fonts/X11
>
> (while "fontparentdir" is awkward, it's also less disruptive to current users
> & distros than redefining --with-fontdir to specify the parent and adding
> some other --with option if they want to specify the full path).
>
I guess we'll have to use DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS to force distcheck
to use ${datadir}/fonts/X11 over fontutil's fontdir variable. Sounds
good to me otherwise.
Cheers,
Julien
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