Introduction to Fontconfig
The Fontconfig package contains a
library and support programs used for configuring and customizing
font access.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2
platform.
Package Information
Fontconfig Dependencies
Required
FreeType-2.13.3
Optional
bubblewrap-0.9.0 (used by some tests),
cURL-8.9.1 and UnZip-6.0 (both used by some tests for
downloading and extracting test files), JSON-C-0.17, DocBook-utils-0.6.14 and libxml2-2.13.3,
texlive-20240312 (or install-tl-unx)
Note
An Internet connection is needed for some tests of this package.
Note
If you have DocBook Utils
installed and you remove the --disable-docs
parameter from the
configure command
below, you must have SGMLSpm-1.1 and texlive-20240312 installed also, or
the Fontconfig build will fail.
Installation of Fontconfig
Install Fontconfig by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--disable-docs \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.15.0 &&
make
To test the results, issue: make
check. One test is known to fail if the kernel does
not support user namespaces. Some tests will download some font
files via Internet.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
If you did not remove the --disable-docs
parameter from the
configure command,
you can install the pre-generated documentation by using the
following commands as the root
user:
install -v -dm755 \
/usr/share/{man/man{1,3,5},doc/fontconfig-2.15.0/fontconfig-devel} &&
install -v -m644 fc-*/*.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.3 /usr/share/man/man3 &&
install -v -m644 doc/fonts-conf.5 /usr/share/man/man5 &&
install -v -m644 doc/fontconfig-devel/* \
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.15.0/fontconfig-devel &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.{pdf,sgml,txt,html} \
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.15.0
Configuring Fontconfig
Config
Files
/etc/fonts/*, /etc/fonts/conf.d/* and
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/*
Configuration Information
The main configuration file for Fontconfig is /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
. Generally you do not
want to edit this file. It will also read /etc/fonts/local.conf
and any files in
/etc/fonts/conf.d
. To put a new
font directory in the configuration, create (or update) the
/etc/fonts/local.conf
file with
your local information or add a new file in /etc/fonts/conf.d
. The default location of
fonts in Fontconfig is:
Fontconfig also ships many
example configuration files in the /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail
directory.
Symlinking specific files to /etc/fonts/conf.d
will enable them. The default
setup is generally good enough for most users. See /etc/fonts/conf.d/README
for a description of
the configuration files.
More information about configuring Fontconfig can be found in the user's manual
in file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.15.0/fontconfig-user.html.