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23.0.60; Font selection broken on non-GTK/non-XFT build.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Christopher Oliver" <coliver <at> message.nmc.edu>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.0.60; Font selection broken on non-GTK/non-XFT build.
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:25:03 -0500

As an old school user, I tend to like to compile Emacs for small footprint, and prefer bitmap fonts.
So I compile with neither GTK nor XFT.  In pretest 23.0.60 under these conditions, the mouse menu
for font selection fails.  This bug lies in an incompatibility between menu-set-font (menu-bar.el),
which expects a string, and mouse-select-font (mouse.el) which yields a list containing a string.
The menu fed x-popup-menu in mouse-select-font has entries of the form (DESCRIPTION XFONT)
rather than (DESCRIPTION . XFONT), so the cdr of this is the wrong type for menu-set-font.
Thoughts?

Message #10 received at 2059 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Christopher Oliver" <coliver <at> message.nmc.edu>
Cc: 2059 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; Font selection broken on non-GTK/non-XFT build.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:45:49 -0500 (EST)

> So I compile with neither GTK nor XFT.  In pretest 23.0.60 under these
> conditions, the mouse menu for font selection fails.  This bug lies in
> an incompatibility between menu-set-font (menu-bar.el), which expects
> a string, and mouse-select-font (mouse.el) which yields a list
> containing a string.

I don't observe any problem with font selection on a `--without-xft
--with-x-toolkit=lucid' build.  Please provide a precise recipe,
starting from `emacs -Q'.  Also, please provide your configure
switches, as you should have in the original bug report (this
information would be in the email generated by M-x report-emacs-bug).

Message #15 received at 2059-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Christopher Oliver" <coliver <at> message.nmc.edu>
Cc: 2059-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Font selection broken on non-GTK/non-XFT build.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:49:09 -0500

"Christopher Oliver" <coliver <at> message.nmc.edu> writes:

> Build cfg switches: --without-dbus --without-xft --without-freetype
> --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-rsvg --without-tiff

OK, I see the problem now.  Patch applied, thanks.

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