bug#3659: FW: 23.0.95; crash on set-frame-font

[Glenn Morris]

Kenichi Handa wrote:

> I don't know how old Xft 2.1.6 is, but, at least, fontconfig
> 2.2.3 is very old, it's released 5 years ago.
>
> Is it possible to install the latest version of fontconfig,
> and try with it?

I tried, but I ran into dependency problems, and I could not get
everything to work right. If the conclusion is that the system I used
is odd or too old (though it passes all the configure tests), that's
fine by me.

Simon's problem might be different though. Sorry for the diversion!