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Prepare

Section titled “Prepare”

  • Check if NOCONFIGURE=yes ./autogen.sh works compared to autoreconf -vfis; the latter works with gettext-tiny

  • Build against freetype-harfbuzz and not freetype alone

  • Depends on libpng (optional), bzip2, zlib, harfbuzz (optional, circular, adds glib2 and pcre)?

  • Do not remove src/fcobjshash.gperf.h as it breaks the build

  • src/fcobjshash.h does not exist (generated by gperf)

  • Does not build with muon

  • Is --disable-static set by default?

  • Requires gperf; kiss provides fcobjshash.h to remove gperf dependency

  • The default cache dir is /var/cache/fontconfig

  • Consider disabling non-scalable fonts (e.g. bitmap fonts)

  • Prefer expat to libxml2 as it is smaller (and faster)

    • gentoo purposely dropped libxml2 support
    • arch and chimera are using expat by default

  • The default hinting configuration is slight

  • Do we need to change the default sub-pixel rendering to rgb or noinstall?

  • Do we need to explicitly specify --with-cache-dir=/var/cache/$nom

  • Void does:

# deprecated upstream, but is broken unless 70-no-bitmaps-except-emoji exists in conf.d
rm "$DESTDIR"/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
ln -s 70-no-bitmaps-except-emoji.conf "$DESTDIR"/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
  • Chimera does:
self.install_file(
    self.files_path / "70-no-nonscalable.conf",
    "usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail",
)
# reject bitmap fonts by default, preventing them from being preferred
self.install_link(
    "etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-nonscalable.conf",
    "../../../usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-nonscalable.conf",
)
  • run the following pre/post install:
fc-cache -vf
fc-cache --system-only > /dev/null

References

Section titled “References”