fontconfig / OS X

10 minutes to walk out the door to scipy. tick tock....

I have been heroically rebuilding gtk/pygtk from source on my
powerbook (10.3) and everything is working under X11 except my app
crashes with a fontconfig error message

  No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is
  not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf
  configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found
  in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org.

The fontconfig file in /usr/local/etc seems to be a generic linux
setup. There is an OSX looking beast in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

Any quick suggestions before I run?

Thanks!
JDH

John Hunter wrote:

10 minutes to walk out the door to scipy. tick tock....

I have been heroically rebuilding gtk/pygtk from source on my
powerbook (10.3) and everything is working under X11 except my app
crashes with a fontconfig error message

  No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is
  not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf
  configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found
  in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org.

The fontconfig file in /usr/local/etc seems to be a generic linux
setup. There is an OSX looking beast in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

Any quick suggestions before I run?

Whatever's in /usr/local/etc has nothing to do with Apple's X11. It
probably got installed with GTK somehow. How did you install GTK?

You might be able to get going by copying /etc/fonts/fonts.conf to the
equivalent in /usr/local/etc/.

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