[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] font-awesome compatible with fontconfig

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Fri Sep 21 05:03:32 UTC 2018


Hi Benjamín,

Benjamín Calderón writes:
> the standard location for fonts is /usr/share/fonts/* and whatever is there
> can be used by other programs that use fontconfig (Qt5 in my case)
> This patch fixed the directory where font-awesome is installed from
> /usr/share/font-awesome to /usr/share/fonts/font-awesome thus it can be
> accessed by other applications and appears when running fc-list.
>
> I have tested it with Qt5 in rpi3 and with fc-list on qemu_x86_64
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:56 PM Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>> Benjamin Calderon writes:
>> > This commit installs font-awesome in the standard fonts directory
>> > making it available systemwide.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Calderon <benj.calderon at gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> >  package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk | 6 ++----
>> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk
>> b/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk
>> > index f39401041a..b1026b3c4d 100644
>> > --- a/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk
>> > +++ b/package/font-awesome/font-awesome.mk
>> > @@ -7,12 +7,10 @@
>> >  FONT_AWESOME_VERSION = v4.7.0
>> >  FONT_AWESOME_SITE = $(call
>> github,FortAwesome,Font-Awesome,$(FONT_AWESOME_VERSION))
>> >  FONT_AWESOME_LICENSE = OFL-1.1 (font), MIT (CSS, LESS and Sass files)
>> > -FONT_AWESOME_DIRECTORIES_LIST = css fonts less scss
>> >
>> >  define FONT_AWESOME_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
>> > -     mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/font-awesome/
>> > -     $(foreach d,$(FONT_AWESOME_DIRECTORIES_LIST),\
>> > -             cp -dpfr $(@D)/$(d)
>> $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/font-awesome$(sep))
>> > +     mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/fonts/font-awesome/

So why do we need this directory? And what about fonts in the
directories listed in FONT_AWESOME_DIRECTORIES_LIST? Aren't they useful
anymore? If so, please update the license.

baruch

>> > +     cp $(@D)/fonts/FontAwesome.otf
>> $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/fonts/font-awesome
>>
>> What does this patch fix? What about the fonts in other directories?
>>
>> >  endef
>> >
>> >  $(eval $(generic-package))

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