Re: Does somebody knows, where Mplayer looks for fontconfig file by default?

On Sat, 2 May 2009 02:36:47 +0000 (UTC), John Brown wrote:
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>Eugene Kovgar <ken20001 <at> ukr.net> writes:
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>> When I using Mplayer with -fontconfig -font "font", it cannot find 
>> fonts.conf file. So my questions is where on default Mplayer searching
>> for fonts.conf file to put it to.
>> 
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>> So I don't understand where /etc/fonts/* folders must be.
>> 
>> When I added FONTCONFIG-FILE="path" to my environment variable, it is working 
>> and fonts.conf loading saccesfully, but there must be default path, where 
>> Mplayer looking for fonts.conf to not adding new parameter to environment 
>> variable, as it would be much better and simplier.
>> Thanks.
>> 
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>If you build fontconfig yourself, you can use the --with-confdir option to
>the configure script to tell it where to look.


use strace (for linux) or filemon (for windows) to find out where
mplayer is looking for a file.

-compn