Re: lilypond stalls on windows every time

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. I just realized that I hadn't seen the
> dot in your command line. Running
> fc-cache.exe .
> does indeed produce a fonts.cache-1 file of considerable size.
>
> Also, I realized that I had been hit by the old problem that some
> mingw commands don't print any output since the buffer isn't flushed.
> To see better what happens, you can use something like:
>
> C:\WINDOWS\Fonts>fc-cache.exe --verbose . > log
>
> C:\WINDOWS\Fonts>more log
> fc-cache.exe: ".": caching, 823 fonts, 0 dirs
> fc-cache.exe: succeeded
>
>
> However, when I run LilyPond --verbose ... , it still spends quite some 
> time
> at
> ..
> Initializing FontConfig...
> Rebuilding FontConfig cache C:\Documents and 
> Settings\mats/.fonts.cache-1. this
> may take a while...
> adding font directory: C:/Program 
> Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/otf/
> adding font directory: C:/Program 
> Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/type1/Building font 
> database.
> ..
>
> and the file C:\Documents and Settings\mats/.fonts.cache-1
> is still empty, but that's maybe normal? It seems that the time spent
> on producing the cache file in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ was negligible,
> I cannot notice any difference in the time it takes to run LilyPond.

Hmm, darn, the cache for the lily dirs have failed, it seems. How does 
it work if  you run fc-cache in the lily font directories?





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