Re: No XFT in CVS from this morning

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I built Emacs from CVS this morning, and there's no font anti-aliasing
> being done.  Here are the hopefully relevant lines from configure:

> checking XFT_CFLAGS... -D_POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS
> -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/pkg/include/freetype2 checking XFT_LIBS...
> -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -lXft -lXrender -lfontconfig
> -lfreetype -lz -lX11 checking X11/Xft/Xft.h usability... yes checking
> X11/Xft/Xft.h presence... yes checking for X11/Xft/Xft.h... yes
> checking for XftFontOpen in -lXft... yes
> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/pkg/bin/pkg-config
> checking for libotf... no
> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/pkg/bin/pkg-config
> checking for m17n-flt... no

> Platform is NetBSD 4.99.63 on AMD64 with GCC 4.1.3 -- let me know if
> anything else would be useful.  This was working on a build from
> probably about a month ago, but that was the last one I did until this
> morning, so about anything in-between I cannot say.  Nothing else in
> the configuration has changed, and the behaviour is the same with or
> without "-q".

Try to add

  (push '(font-backend xft x) default-frame-alist)

to your .emacs.  The current default is to prefer old-style X fonts.


        Stefan