GNU bug report logs - #28236
'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: andrei.elkin <at> pp.inet.fi

Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: help

Done: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>

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Message #25 received at 28236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ari Roponen <ari.roponen <at> gmail.com>,
 andrei.elkin <at> pp.inet.fi, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:41:52 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> So you are saying that the problem here is that Cairo can only work
> with fonts known fontconfig, and cannot switch to font backend(s) that
> bypass fontconfig?  If so, perhaps just an entry in PROBLEMS with the
> above recipe would suffice as a workaround?

I find that surprising. The non-Cairo GTK build can use Xft and X font
backends, what's different about Cairo?

(I just tried to set font-backend to '(ftcr x) on my Cairo build, and
failed, so perhaps it really isnĘžt supported).

Robert
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