[cairo] cairo without fontconfig revisited

[cu]

I found the thread "Request: Separate FreeType and Fontconfig" and that
is the discussion I was referring to. Two things though:
1) I was not sure whether that thread came to a definite conclusion.
There were a few patches proposed but to the best of my understanding
they were for previous versions of Cairo. We are currently using 1.8.x
and it would be great to get a "definitive" patch.

2) I don't think there was a discussion on how to provide fonts or font
patterns to Cairo when fontconfig is not available. It would be great if
someone who has experience working with that could provide some help,
perhaps a code example etc.

Any help with that would be very much appreciated!
> Did you check the archives? :)
> The developmental versions of cairo can be compiled without fontconfig. 
> Should be quite easy to port to 1.8.x too.  In fact, maybe we should have done 
> for 1.8.8.
>
> Hope that helps,
> behdad
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