[MacPorts] #34072: gnuplot & gd: Could not find/open font when opening font "arial"

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#34072: gnuplot & gd: Could not find/open font when opening font "arial"
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 Reporter:  mojca.miklavec.lists@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                          |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                          |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                           |     Version:  2.0.4                                
 Keywords:                                  |        Port:  gnuplot                              
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Comment(by mojca.miklavec.lists@…):

 I have
 {{{
 gnuplot @4.6.0_0+luaterm+pangocairo+qt+wxwidgets_devel (active)
 platform='darwin 11' archs='x86_64'
 gd2 @2.0.35_11 (active) platform='darwin 11' archs='x86_64'
 }}}
 but as I said, I need more extensive checking/research. I remember that I
 saw it working earlier and I have no idea why it still complains. But
 anyway, Ethan's patch might be worth exploring even if this particular
 issue with "arial not found" goes away. I can still imagine that users put
 fonts to exotic places and change fontconfig's configuration. In those
 cases simply setting the three default paths to fonts doesn't suffice
 anyway. Feel free to set the priority of this ticket to low (I don't have
 permissions to do that).

 slightly offtopic: Two particular requests for you (Andrea): I would
 really like to know where exactly that exclamation mark (r76048) makes a
 difference (this was the main reason that I added you to CC; I would like
 to see a tiny minimal example or something similar) and I would be very
 grateful if you would be willing to review #33596. I volunteered to take
 over maintainance of gnuplot, but I need somebody to review the patches,
 fix mistakes or ask more questions, and finally do the commit when/if
 patch converges to some usable state.

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