On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:46:17AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:35, stan wrote:
> > When I try to make install the fontconfig port, the make hangs foreer in
> > the "creating packing list: step. I let it run ovnight, and it never
> > finished.
> >
> > What can I do to fix this?
>
> You have a bad font or font path somewhere. fontconfig runs the command
> fc-cache to build a font cache for use with Xft. If you have a bad font
> or a symlink loop somewhere in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, you will get
> this behavior. I recommend going through your fonts, and removing
> anything you may have added.
Thnaks.
What is thsi fc-cache? It does seem to be the culprit, but I can't find a
man page for it.
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