After updating to x11-base/xorg-server-21.1.1-r2 and restarting X, some of my old applications (using X11 fonts directly) failed to start, for example with x11-plugins/wmpinboard: Warning: The font `-*-fixed-*--10-*-iso8859-1' doesn't exist. Fatal error: No alternatives left, aborting. As I did not remove any fonts and this was working until recently, I dug into xorg-server itself and update from 1.20 1.20 with autotools sets --with-fontrootdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/fonts While 21.x in meson uses -Ddefault_font_path="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/fonts But default path is not the same as root dir: https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xserver/blob/xwayland-21.1.1/meson.build#L126 When not set, configuration will pick fontrootdir from pkgconfig file and create a proper default font path, concatenation of all common subdirs in fontrootdir (like misc, 100dpi, ...). While current ebuild "just" includes root /usr/share/fonts As a workaround I dropped the default_font_path from ebuild and remerged to get back my applications (not applicable as proper fix as we loose ${EPREFIX})
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1d988354639809f18c39c18fd7e804df99ecedcc commit 1d988354639809f18c39c18fd7e804df99ecedcc Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-12-16 02:05:33 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-12-16 02:37:23 +0000 x11-base/xorg-server: Remove default font setting This option has slightly different behavior between the old autotools build system and meson. When not set, configuration will pick fontrootdir from pkgconfig file and create a proper default font path, concatenation of all common subdirs in fontrootdir (like misc, 100dpi, ...). When set, it only includes the argument, e.g. /usr/share/fonts. Prefix systems should not be affected because meson gets the fontrootdir from pkgconfig, which includes the prefix path. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/829120 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-9999.ebuild | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
