Subject: bug#7936: bug#8030: configure.in clears FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS and FONTCONFIG_LIBS

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:20:15 -0500

Sven Joachim <[email-masked]> writes:

> It seems to me that bugs #7936 and #8030 are the same, so they should
> probably be merged.
>
> Moreover, AFAICS the root of the problem is that configure.in (in Emacs
> 23.2 and emacs-23) inadvertently clears FONTCONFIG_LIBS, so that
> '-lfontconfig' is not passed to the linker.  This has been fixed by
> Miles on the trunk in revision 102932:
>
> This bug causes Emacs to FTBFS on GNU/Linux as well with a strict
> linker when configured "--with-x-toolkit=lucid", see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614823.  I can confirm
> that Miles' change fixes that problem.
>
> Any chance to get this fix into Emacs 23.3?

I discussed this with Stefan.  It's not obviously safe, so it seems
better to leave it for Emacs 24.