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system-installed emacs does not find system-installed fonts

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From: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: myglc2 <myglc2 <at> gmail.com>, 22927 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22927: system-installed emacs does not find system-installed fonts
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 10:44:26 +0300

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Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-02 20:29 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> myglc2 (2016-03-06 21:57 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Not technically not a bug because the doc says ...
>>>
>>> 2.6.2 X11 Fonts
>>>
>>> The ‘fontconfig’ package in Guix looks for fonts in
>>> ‘$HOME/.guix-profile’ by default.  Thus, to allow graphical applications
>>> installed with Guix to display fonts, you have to install fonts with
>>> Guix as well.
>>
>> (I have not checked but) I believe this can be fixed by adding
>> "/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts" to '--with-add-fonts'
>> configure flag of the 'fontconfig' package.
>>
>> For now I think the following recipe should work:
>>
>> 1. Make a file "~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf" with the following
>>    contents:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
>> <fontconfig>
>>     <dir>/run/current-system/profile/share/fonts</dir>
>> </fontconfig>
>
> Indeed.  I realize I did this independently in
> e71ef7adaece7e132a5059139122b45083ea1b39.
>
> The better fix will be to rebuild Fontconfig as you suggest.  Would you
> like to try that and apply it to ‘core-updates’?

Yes, the patch is attached.

[0001-gnu-fontconfig-Find-fonts-in-the-system-profile.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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