Please follow XDG Base Directory Specification

[ZerdoX-x]

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

This tool is not usable when home directory is not writable

[chrissimpkins]

Thanks for pointing this out! I really appreciate it.

For my future reference from the linked documentation:

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

[chrissimpkins]

A quick peruse of the script suggests that we can change it by modifying these path settings:

ttfautohint-build/ttfautohint-build.sh

Lines 37 to 38 in 29e016d

	BUILD="$HOME/ttfautohint-build"
	INST="$BUILD/local"

Interested in contributing a PR?

[ZerdoX-x]

I've tried to implement this thing. Take a look please