Re: [Gnome-print] some RH merge



Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> writes: 
> Please be VERY careful applying this patch.  If it goes in we should
> attempt to notify as many distributions and packagers as possible.
> Getting the fontmap(2) file filled correctly has been a long running
> irritation.  Doing it properly requires some knowledge of where on
> the system to find type1 fonts.  If you move it the distribution
> specific wrappers will need to change.  Have a look in the Debian or
> Gnumeric bug logs for hundreds of examples of failure.

An alternative change might be a --with-fontmap-dir= option to
configure, then I could put that on our configure line, leaving the
default as-is.

Havoc





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