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28.0.50; Emacs with cairo build segfault in HELLO file

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Zhu Zihao" <all_but_last <at> 163.com>
Cc: 41627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41627: 28.0.50; Emacs with cairo build segfault in HELLO file
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:06:41 +0300

> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:47:30 +0800 (CST)
> From: "Zhu Zihao" <all_but_last <at> 163.com>
> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org
> 
> I'm able to reproduce this bug in NixOS 20.03 with Emacs 27.0.91 pretest version. I guess this bug is
> caused by the mechanism of Nix/Guix. NixOS doesn't have FHS directory structure, it means that there's
> nothing like /usr/share/fonts for Cairo to search fonts. And I try to copy some fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts
> then Emacs won't crash again.

If you can show a backtrace from the crash, perhaps we could find the
reason and fix it.

Thanks.

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