[Nix-dev] Broken fonts on non-NixOS

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 06/14/2013 04:07 AM, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>> 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 ?

On x-updates we have --sysconfdir=/etc, which should be enough IIRC. 
It's to be merged very soon.


Vlada


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