Bug#170749: xfonts-scalable: runnxftcache in Speedo directory fails
This is the message from the man himself, resolving this
problem which I encountered a few weeks back. -jwb
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Subject: Re: [Fonts]libXft 1.2 prevents xftcache from scanning Speedo fonts
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Around 11 o'clock on Oct 7, Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> and I finally tracked it back to
> the latest version of libXft.so.1.2. When this library was
> installed (from fontconfig.org sources), xftcache
> would fail with the message:
>
> Running xftcache in Speedo font directory...Can't scan
> directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
xftcache is obsolete; use fc-cache instead.
Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab
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