[Xquartz-dev] The 2.1.0 package and Apple System Fonts

Sat Dec 8 07:11:36 PST 2007

Interestingly, somewhere between Dec 2 when I originally sent that  
message and this morning Dec 8, the various fc-* commands nolonger  
see /etc/fonts, but seem to produce the correct answer.

The only thing that I've done to my system from an X11 perspective  
since that time is reboot (I did NOT reboot after installing the  
X11-2.1.0.pkg on Dec 2 when I noticed the original issue).  There were  
actually several reboots as I was switching between Tiger, Leopard  
with the xserver 1.2a fixes and Leopard with X11-2.1.0.pkg as I was  
trying to track down a bizarre oddity with the alt keys not working as  
alt keys or even the expected keycode (I haven't yet sent that message  
to this list, but will later today as it really looks like a bug to me).

So, apparently, something didn't quite work right after X11-2.1.0.pkg  
was installed until a reboot.

Note: this fixed up the fc-* commands, but the server still only see a  
few fonts, but I seems to me that this is now understood (I have a lot  
of X11 apps that I use that rely on the fonts that the xserver  
provides, so it is inconvenient at times which is why I was trying to  
understand).

Thanks very much to all as I have learned a lot with this discussion.

Merle

On Dec 8, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Ben Byer wrote:

> (Merging replies to two emails)
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> On Tiger, documentation on fontconfig was very poor. The latter  
>> hasn't changed on Leopard. I haven't found any man pages about any  
>> of the fontconfig /usr/X11/bin/fc-* binaries that come with Leopard.
>
> Unlike the rest of the packages in "X11", fontconfig apparently  
> requires docbook to generate manpages; if you don't have it  
> installed, it simply silently fails to generate man pages for fc-*.   
> This is a relatively recent problem, and we are not the only  
> platform to have been bitten by this: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7524&tstart=0
>
>> There are some man pages, for example fonts-conf(5), but they don't  
>> seem to have made the leap to Leopard yet:
>>       FONTS-CONF(5)
>>
>> NAME
>>      fonts.conf - Font configuration files
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>>         /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
>>         /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
>>         /etc/fonts/conf.d
>>         ~/.fonts.conf
>> and so on...
>
> That's the only manpage that shows up because it's the only (non- 
> programmer) page that ships in troff format:
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/X11proto-14/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.4.1/doc/fonts-conf.5
>
> As you may notice, those paths are hardcoded in that file; they  
> failed to properly use autoconf to change the path there like they  
> did in some of their other help files (such as http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/X11proto-14/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.4.1/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml) 
> .
>
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 4:02 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> []
>>>> In short, this is another big mess in Leopard.
>>> I would say a few missing man pages does not constitute a big mess.
>>
>> I would say changing a user interface in an incompatible way and  
>> reducing functionality(*) without documenting it does.
>> (*) The Tiger fonts.conf file has the system font directories in  
>> its font directory list, the Leopard fonts.conf hasn't.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "changing a user interface in an  
> incompatible way", but "reducing functionality without documenting  
> it" implies that there was some conscious decision to do make a  
> change.
>
> Here are the configure flags for fontconfig on Leopard:
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/X11proto-14/fontconfig/conf_flags
>
> LDFLAGS="-L$DSTROOT/usr/X11/lib -lz -Xlinker -framework -Xlinker  
> CoreServices -Xlinker -framework -Xlinker ApplicationServices  
> $LDFLAGS" CFLAGS="-I$DSTROOT/usr/X11/include -I$DSTROOT/usr/X11/ 
> include/freetype2 $CFLAGS" --with-confdir=/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts
> I left off one additional option -- "--with-add-fonts=~/Library/ 
> Fonts,/Library/Fonts,/System/Library/Fonts".  That option was set in  
> Tiger (more or less) by this file:
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.10.ppc/X11-0.46.4/xc/lib/fontconfig/Imakefile
> The problem here is that in order to get modular X.org working, I  
> had to throw away all of the old Imake-based configuration and start  
> over using autoconf.  I missed a few flags here and there, while  
> setting the autoconf settings for all 150+ modules.  This is not an  
> issue that was raised during Leopard's beta test cycle, it's trivial  
> to fix with a configuration file change, and I hope to fix it the  
> next time we update X11.
>> If you look at Merle's message you see that even the new fc-*  
>> binaries are not informed about the new location of the config files:
>>
>>>> [LeopardAlBook:~] merle% fc-match
>>>> Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf"
>>
>
> I don't know why Merle sees this; I don't see it on my system, nor  
> any other system I have access to.
>
> The configuration directory is compiled into /usr/X11/lib/ 
> libfontconfig.1.dylib;   try this:
>
> $ strings /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.dylib | grep -C 1 FONTCONFIG_PATH
> --
> Ben Byer
> CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
>
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