x11-fonts/fontconfig and bitmap fonts

[Cath O'Deray]

I'd like to understand these six lines, added a few months ago:

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-...121936f350464ceff7080b7f75cf84a604c983R71-R76>

What determines whether bitmaps are on or off following an installation? Is it simply the BITMAPS option at build time?

<https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/fontconfig/#config> I see BITMAPS=on but I can't tell when that became the default.

 

[a6h]

BITMAPS option is defined in the x11-fonts/fontconfig/Makefile:

OPTIONS_DEFINE= DOCS NLS BITMAPS TEST

BITMAPS option is set to default in the next line:

OPTIONS_DEFAULT=BITMAPS HINTING_SLIGHT

When it comes to build, there are different targets:

pre-fetch, do-fetch, post-fetch, [...], pre-install, do-install, post-install, [...].

There's a rule, to run specefic targets -- depending on whether an option is on or off:

target-OPT-on
target-OPT-off

Thus, we can form this. for example:

... target ... OPT .. on|off
------------ ------- -------
post-install-BITMAPS-on
post-install-BITMAPS-off

As you can see in the x11-fonts/fontconfig/Makefile, there is:

post-install-BITMAPS-off:
    ${RLN} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf

post-install-BITMAPS-on:
    ${RM} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
    ${RLN} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-yes-bitmaps.conf

For a detailed explanation, refer to the "5.13.3.12. Additional Build Targets, target-OPT-on and target-OPT-off" section of the
5.13. Makefile Options | FreeBSD Porter's Handbook