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bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:37:46 +0200 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ari Roponen <ari.roponen@gmail.com>, 28236@debbugs.gnu.org,
> andrei.elkin@pp.inet.fi, dgutov@yandex.ru
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:41:52 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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).
I'm guessing that the other font backends use X calls that cannot be
supported with Cairo drawing, or maybe such support simply wasn't
coded yet. But I'm not an expert on this stuff, so maybe I'm wrong.
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Dmitry Gutov, 2018/12/10
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/11
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Ari Roponen, 2018/12/12
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/12
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Robert Pluim, 2018/12/12
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Robert Pluim, 2018/12/13
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/13
- bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail, Robert Pluim, 2018/12/13