Re: Solaris 5.8 version hangs again (X resources for faces?)

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler@alcatel-lucent.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Chong" == Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>     Chong> 
>     Chong> Could you try to pinpoint where in make-face-x-resource-internal, and
>     Chong> for what face, the hang occurs?
>
> It's the face 'menu' that causes the error.
> I've now added a font spec for the menu face and the error is gone, e.g.
> Emacs.menu.attributeFont: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

This is strange.  It may be that the face code needs to handle this face
specially.

> Shouldn't the condition-case take care of the error?
> And another question: Shouldn't the window-system check, i.e.
>  (memq (window-system frame) '(x w32 mac))
> be outside the dolist?

No, because face specs and custom face attributes can be defined even in
terminals (X resources, however, cannot).