Re: getting fc-list to see gsfonts

[Julien Rioux]

On 11/09/2013 3:28 AM, Mark Polesky wrote:
> So, after Julien's patch
>
>    https://codereview.appspot.com/13390043
>
> I finally get a proper error at the configure stage:
>
>    ERROR: Please install required programs:  International
>    New Century Schoolbook fonts (make sure the fc-list
>    utility can see them, or use --with-ncsb-dir)
>
>    See INSTALL.txt for more information on how to build
>    LilyPond

Great. This patch is going in so everyone will benefit.

> After a lot of searching, I realized that all I needed was
>
>    ../configure --with-ncsb-dir=/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/
>
> and now my fonts work (finally!).
>
> But now I'm curious, how do I get fc-list to "see" the fonts
> in the gsfonts directory?

Looks like you have to run fc-cache to update the database. Something like:
sudo fc-cache -fsv

Cheers,
Julien