Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
- Subject: Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:30:46 PST
- Comments: In-reply-to Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> message dated "Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:46:58 -0800."
Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> + Bill Janssen <email@hidden>:
>
> > Never heard of fontconfig before. Is this something that comes with XQuartz?
> >
> > The Emacs manual is silent on how to configure it to use (or not use) fontconfig.
>
> I'm quite confused as to the relationship between fontconfig and Xft,
> but I believe the latter is slightly more relevant to the issue here.
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XftGnuEmacs says that Xft support is
> included and enabled by default since emacs 23.1. What version is your
> emacs?
23.1.
But the configure step is key. Here are couple of lines from mine:
[...]
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /local/bin/pkg-config
checking for fontconfig >= 2.2.0... no
[...]
Does Emacs use -lxft? no
[...]
So: the fontconfig libraries are installed in /usr/X11/lib, but the
configure script for Emacs uses the execrable pkg-config to try to find
them. Since I rashly installed ImageMagick, which uses pkg-config,
there's a binary of it in /local/bin, which doesn't know about the
fontconfig libraries installed by XQuartz.
To be fair, /usr/X11/share/pkgconfig/ also doesn't mention fontconfig, so
even if I adjusted PKG_CONFIG_PATH, I don't see how this could work.
I'm sure it all works dandy on a GNU-Linux Gnome system :-).
Bill
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