Currently, font-util hardcodes mapdir to $libdir/X11/fonts/util. The attached patch makes mapdir an option at configure time. It is based on the similar work already committed to CVS to make fontdir configurable for the actual fonts. NOTE: the patch is untested.
Created attachment 3914 [details] [review] patch to font-util's configure.ac & Makefile.am to make mapdir configurable
Created attachment 3937 [details] [review] update patch so configure displays default mapdir path I have now tested this patch against CVS, following the directions at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide, performing both make install & make distcheck.
After discussing this bug with mharris on IRC, he suggested changing font-util's mapdir to use $datadir instead of $libdir, since the encodings files are architecture-independent data files and therefore according to the FHS belong in $datadir. Instead of adding a --with-mapdir configure option, X.org/distributors would be free to set datadir=libdir to get the old behavior. mharris also proposed making encodings & util parallel dirs to fonts instead of subdirectories. So the structure would look like $datadir/X11/{encodings,fonts,util} instead of $datadir/X11/fonts/{encodings,util}. This way the fonts directory would only contain fonts and distributors wouldn't have to do ugly hacks to ignore special subdirectories in fonts. Implementing this change requires patching three modules: libfontenc, encodings, and font-util. I will be attaching those patches now. The only concern is for those distributors that will be upset about moving the default location of these files, but it seems like the switch to modular X.org would be the best time to cause such a break, and the distributors would be free to patch the sources to get the old behavior. The only remaining question I have is if the directory for font-util's map files should be called util or maps. Calling it maps would clearly denote its purpose and hopefully prevent any abuse that might occurs with a generic directory name such as util, which could end up with lots of random things in it from many different packages. But if the util directory were reserved specifically for font-util, then I would agree to using util for storing the map files (& any other architecture-independent data relevant to font-util).
Created attachment 3955 [details] [review] patch to encodings to move to datadir & toplevel encodings dir
Created attachment 3956 [details] [review] patch to font-util to move to datadir & toplevel util dir
Created attachment 3957 [details] [review] patch to libfontenc to move to datadir & toplevel encodings dir
Created attachment 3972 [details] [review] update patch to encodings to also adjust large encodingsdir I would think there should be a way to get the encodingsdirs set in Makefile.am in the large subdirectory to be based off that in the top-level Makefile.am, but I don't know the correct autofoo to do that, so this patch just hardcodes it.
Comment on attachment 3914 [details] [review] patch to font-util's configure.ac & Makefile.am to make mapdir configurable Requesting a commit on the original patch, as it's less drastic and shouldn't require much thought or discussion.
Comment on attachment 3914 [details] [review] patch to font-util's configure.ac & Makefile.am to make mapdir configurable Removing request, as the pkgconfig file also needs to be changed from mapdir to MAPDIR.
Created attachment 4051 [details] [review] configurable-mapdir.patch Update from comment #4; also fix fontutil.pc.in so other packages can detect mapdir.
Comment on attachment 4051 [details] [review] configurable-mapdir.patch Fix pkgconfig file as well.
I've checked in the patches to make the dirs configurable. Thanks! We can discuss changing the default locations of the font files for 7.1.
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