[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] liberation: add support for custom target directory

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:48:45 +0100
"Luca Ceresoli" <list at lucaceresoli.net> wrote:

> > That could be one solution. The other solution would be to hide this
> > from the user, i.e an unvisible configuration option to select the
> > installation location of the fonts (i.e « fonts in subdirs » or « all
> > fonts in /usr/share/fonts »). « fonts in subdirs » would be the
> > default, and « all fonts in /usr/share/fonts/ » would be selected by
> > Nano-X/Microwindows. This way, the user wouldn't have to worry about
> > the installation location of fonts.
> 
> That would not be enough in my case.
> I don't use Nano-x/Microwin, my setup is based on qt + directfb + freetype.
> I am not sure which of these components needs fonts in a specific dir,
> but if fonts are in subdirs they won't be found.

Sorry, but I do not understand why it wouldn't be enough. If you need
all the fonts in a single directory, you would just select the « all
fonts in /usr/share/fonts » case, and that would work, no ?

Thomas
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