I interchange between 2015.03-2 & 2016.11.11, and sometimes have both running. I say that in case it affects below. I get the "Fontconfig needs to update" dialogue box a. Popping up for a brief time like a blink, b. Popping up and doing a long cache update when I wouldn't expect it*. IIRC with 2016.11.11 it has done it multiple times recently. * No change to the OpenSCAD install, no fonts changed. So, is running both versions likely to trigger the cache build? If not this is a note to keep your eyes peeled as I suspect a bug... Remember, you would only get this if you use text(), so anyone doing testing on the snapshot could include the following in anything they are doing if they want to see if this is reproducible; color("black",0) text("!"); ----- Admin - PM me if you need anything, or if I've done something stupid... Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. The TPP is no simple “trade agreement.” Fight it! http://www.ourfairdeal.org/ time is running out! -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/text-Fontconfig-needs-to-update-its-cache-tp19536.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

On 12/11/2016 01:23 AM, MichaelAtOz wrote: > So, is running both versions likely to trigger the cache > build? If not this is a note to keep your eyes peeled as > I suspect a bug... > Not sure, I guess it might be triggered by different versions of the fontconfig library in different OpenSCAD builds. I think the short blink of the dialog is sort of normal as we don't know if there's anything to do, so the update is always triggered, just in normal case it's fast enough to not even appear on screen. ciao, Torsten.

tp3 wrote > On 12/11/2016 01:23 AM, MichaelAtOz wrote: >> So, is running both versions likely to trigger the cache >> build? If not this is a note to keep your eyes peeled as >> I suspect a bug... >> > Not sure, I guess it might be triggered by different versions > of the fontconfig library in different OpenSCAD builds. Is that part of a bigger library? Isn't shown in Help/Library-info. ----- Admin - PM me if you need anything, or if I've done something stupid... Unless specifically shown otherwise above, my contribution is in the Public Domain; to the extent possible under law, I have waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this work. Obviously inclusion of works of previous authors is not included in the above. The TPP is no simple “trade agreement.” Fight it! http://www.ourfairdeal.org/ time is running out! -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/text-Fontconfig-needs-to-update-its-cache-tp19536p19538.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

On 12/11/2016 01:47 AM, MichaelAtOz wrote: > tp3 wrote >> Not sure, I guess it might be triggered by different versions >> of the fontconfig library in different OpenSCAD builds. > > Is that part of a bigger library? Isn't shown in Help/Library-info. > No, it's a separate library. I think there's some other libs missing too. I guess we should find out if it's possible to list all those in the library info too. I just checked, font-config allows to get both compile-time and runtime version. ciao, Torsten.