Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Default Font

From: Vinicius Jose Latorre <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:07:50 -0200

Vinicius Jose Latorre wrote:
> Chong Yidong wrote:
>> Sounds like bug #505, a bug with Debian's font packaging.
>>
>> What do the following commands give?
>>
>> $ xlsfonts *monospace*
>> $ xlsfonts -ll *monospace*
>>   
>
> See the attached file.
>
>
>> Also, does the following patch give better results?
>>
>> *** trunk/src/xfns.c.~1.727.~    2008-10-19 23:52:58.000000000 -0400
>> --- trunk/src/xfns.c    2008-10-24 02:57:56.000000000 -0400
>> ***************
>> *** 3066,3071 ****
>> --- 3066,3072 ----
>>       = {
>>   #ifdef HAVE_XFT
>>           /* This will find the normal Xft font.  */
>> +         "DejaVu Sans Mono-12",
>>            "monospace-12",
>>   #endif
>>           "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",
>>   
>
> Well, I got an error during make, see it:
>
> $ rm -rf emacs
> $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:[email-masked]:/sources/emacs co emacs
> $ cd emacs
> $ # edit src/xfns.c
> $ ./configure --prefix=/home/download/emacs
> $ make bootstrap
> [ ... skip lot of messages ... ]
> Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/faces.el (source)...
> Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/minibuffer.el (source)...
> Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/button.el (source)...
> Loading /home/vinicius/work/emacs/lisp/startup.el (source)...
> Creating directory: Permission denied, /.emacs.d
> make[2]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 255
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vinicius/work/emacs/src'
> make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vinicius/work/emacs'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> $

Ok, someone had fixed the problem above.

I've got a new Emacs compiled and installed, but the above patch did not 
modify the problem.