Re: Error loading latest xemacs beta with Xft=emacs

robert> After the recent changes to move toward fontconfig, XEmacs robert> 21.5.26 exits at load if I have an init file with font robert> setup code in it. Actually, we already use fontconfig. What happened is that the name of the file containing the fontconfig code has changed. Did you try rebuilding with your usual configuration? If you did, please try one more time, doing "make depend" (for good luck, I committed a dependency bug which has since been fixed in CVS, but this is just as good as "cvs update") and "make beta". It is important to do "make *beta*" to ensure everything, including the compiled Lisp, gets rebuilt. What is happening is that there is real code in the C files src/font-mgr.*, and if you do a full rebuild, that code will be included, which `provide's the "font-mgr" feature. There is stub code in lisp/font-mgr.el that will eventually support fontconfig APIs on platforms where the fontconfig library is not available. Currently all of the functions in that file just throw an error. robert> I am not sure which code causes the crash. lisp/fontconfig.el does `(require 'font-mgr)'. This is a no-op if the font-mgr.o file is built and linked into xemacs. It loads the font-mgr.el emulation if not. Currently any attempt to use the fontconfig emulation throws an error, with the results you see. All Lisp errors in initialization cause XEmacs to exit with a backtrace. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.