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'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ari.roponen <at> gmail.com, andrei.elkin <at> pp.inet.fi, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:56:21 +0100

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

>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 28236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  ari.roponen <at> gmail.com,  andrei.elkin <at> pp.inet.fi,  dgutov <at> yandex.ru
>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:34:54 +0100
>> 
>> So xfns.c only initializes the xfont driver when not using Cairo. I
>> made the obvious changes there, and 'emacs -Q -fn 7x14' starts up, and
>> 'C-u C-x =' tells me:
>> 
>>  x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 (#x68)
>> 
>> Unfortunately *scratch* does not (re-)display properly
>
> Can you tell more details about this improper redisplay?

I see text for the menu-bar, but *scratch* looks empty (and thereʼs no
text displayed in the mode-line). The text is actually there in
*scratch*, though.

I donʼt think this is a viable path to look at, especially given Ari's
workaround of copying the required fonts.

Robert

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