Re: [PATCH] gnu: font-gnu-unifont: Call mkfontdir for pcf output

[iyzsong@member.fsf.org (宋文武)]

huang_ying_caritas@163.com writes:

> * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-gnu-unifont): call mkfontdir for pcf output.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
> ---
>  gnu/packages/fonts.scm | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
> index 1f6d1d0c3..088a6bec9 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
> @@ -671,13 +671,15 @@ languages, plus Greek and Cyrillic.")
>                         (string-append "PCFDEST=" pcf)
>                         (string-append "CONSOLEDEST=" psf)
>                         "install")
> +              (system* "mkfontdir" pcf)

This will create 'share/fonts/misc/fonts.dir' in the 'pcf' output of
font-gnu-unifont package.  When multiple packages have this file,
collisions occour and then I guess it won't work as expected.  The right
place to create this file is the 'fonts-dir-file' hook in profiles.scm,
currently it does 'mkfontscale' and 'mkfontdir' only for truetype fonts
under 'share/fonts/truetype', which can be extended for each directory
under 'share/fonts'.  What do you think?