[cups.general] Q. --with-fontpath and --datadir of configure script, seems to automaticallyappend /cups

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does the configure directive --with-fontpath indicate where fonts are
> installed? Doesn't seem
> to be the case as the fonts are installed in DATADIR/cups, where
> DATADIR  seems to be
> the value specified by --datadir AND /cups appended to that value.

--with-fontpath defines the default path(s) for fonts - it can
contain multiple paths - and is used by ESP Ghostscript and other
consumers of fonts to locate the fonts for a print job.

The CUPS text fonts are always installed in DATADIR/fonts, and that
is where the texttops filter looks for them...

> Q. Is there a recommended way to patch configure? I suppose it involves
> learning
> auto-config? Just curious in case I send you folks a patch.

Provide a unified diff of the configure.in and/or config-scripts/*.m4
files that are used to generate the configure script.

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