New: Qt5: no fonts are installed

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6830

Summary: Qt5: no fonts are installed
Product: buildroot
Version: 2014.02
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: Other
AssignedTo: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
ReportedBy: syntheticpp at gmx.net
CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0

Qt5 was build with linuxfb only and widgets, fontconfig enabled, but /output/target/usr/lib/font is empty.

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--- Comment #1 from Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> 2014-02-01 08:50:14 UTC --- Interesting. We do have some code that should install fonts to the target
directory, when Qt has installed them to the staging directory. From
qt5base.mk:

define QT5BASE_INSTALL_TARGET_FONTS

        if [ -d $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/fonts/ ] ; then \
                mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/fonts ; \
                cp -dpfr $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/fonts/*

$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/fonts ; \
fi
endef

So maybe the specific configuration you're using does not install fonts to the staging directory.

Can you post your Buildroot .config file?

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--- Comment #2 from syntheticpp at gmx.net 2014-02-01 11:57:47 UTC --- Seems -fontconfig disables font installation:

$cat qtbase/mkspecs/features/qpa/genericunixfontdatabase.prf CONFIG += qpa/basicunixfontdatabase

contains(QT_CONFIG, fontconfig) {
    DEFINES += Q_FONTCONFIGDATABASE
    LIBS += -lfontconfig
} else:!android {

fonts.path = $$[QT_INSTALL_LIBS]/fonts
fonts.files = $$QT_SOURCE_TREE/lib/fonts/*
INSTALLS += fonts
}

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syntheticpp at gmx.net changed:

What |Removed |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #3 from syntheticpp at gmx.net 2014-02-01 15:31:55 UTC --- I also don't build freetype now, but have not tested if it's a requirement.

Overall, it's more a question of documentation.

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Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |VERIFIED
                 CC|                            |abrodkin at synopsys.com

--- Comment #4 from Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]> --- Indeed with BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_FONTCONFIG selected no fonts are installed in staging and essentially they won't get on target.

Moreover even if one puts fonts in /usr/lib/fonts on target they won't appear in Qt5 apps.

So I had to rebuild entire Qt5 after I disabled BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_FONTCONFIG and fonts appeared in Qt apps.

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