[Nix-dev] Broken fonts on non-NixOS

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Eelco Dolstra wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 16/04/13 10:15, Peter Simons wrote:
>
>> is the environment variable FONTCONFIG_FILE to some appropriate value,
>> like "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf"?
>
> Strangely, our fontconfig is supposed to look in /etc/fonts by default [1], but
> that seems not to work anymore.
>
> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/9301524c500e7e7567d5da54b3f3d7d07e53d921

The problem is that fontconfig has renamed thier --with-confdir 
configuration option to --with-baseconfigdir.

Can you or someone else patch 
pkgs/development/libraries/fontconfig/default.nix ?

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