Hello, I believe this issue had been fixed by:
commit 6f12880a76a6c91058718d15845f8b9d9b529a5a Author: Sarah Morgensen <iskar...@mgsn.dev> Date: Fri Jun 18 17:52:05 2021 -0700 gnu: fontconfig: Use (locally) deterministic caching Make fontconfig use directory contents rather than modification time to determine cache validity (by pretending that mtime is broken). Closing.