Hello Jim, Do you observe the same 30 seconds delay say the first time you launch Lilypond in a day, even without using fontconfig? And if so, are the subsequent launches much faster?
JM > Le 4 févr. 2016 à 01:06, Jim Tisdall <tisd...@tisdall.net> a écrit : > > on mac os x 10.11.2, lilypond 2.18.2, plenty nice mac pro plenty ram > > > Serious slowdown due to font configuration - 30 seconds delay > while "FontConfig" is called - happens when you do a > lilypond -V for instance. > > Fixed from command line using /opt/local/bin/fc-cache > for each user (root, me, ...) which creates files > .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 in home directories > > But I still have delay problem running lilypond from a web program - > I use user:group _www:_www which works fine for everything but this. > 30 second delay. (No home directory for _www due to security) > > Admittedly I'm not expert at font management. Any way to have every > user of lilypond on my system use a good font cache? > > Here's parts of my detailed DEBUG output from web invocation: > > Log level set to 287 > Relocation: is absolute: > argv0=/Applications/LilyPondDevel.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond > > etc etc > > Setting FONTCONFIG_FILE to > /Applications/LilyPondDevel.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../etc/fonts/fonts.conf > Setting FONTCONFIG_PATH to > /Applications/LilyPondDevel.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../etc/fonts > > > etc. etc. > > Initializing FontConfig... > Adding font directory: > /Applications/LilyPondDevel.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf > Building font database... > > > .... here's where it hangs for about 30 seconds .... > > etc. etc. > > Interpreting music... > [/Applications/LilyPondDevel.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-20.otf] > [emmentaler-11_3.9453125] > > etc etc > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user