From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: harfbuzz 2f72162: Fix crash in the Cairo build Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20181214085417.15440.18845@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20181214085418.6616820538@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <831s6kgrtj.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnu4f45d.fsf@gnu.org> <837eg8dpd6.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhr6pqmr.fsf@gnu.org> <83womapgll.fsf@gnu.org> <83lg2qp8eq.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0o2otod.fsf@gnu.org> <0oy36o22he.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83o97kn4cv.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0nzmzmr.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="153070"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 19:18:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gstga-000dfe-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:18:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34044 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gstgZ-00016k-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gstgS-00016d-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gstgR-0000Hz-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:28 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:53895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gstgQ-0000H0-AZ; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x1AIIPMa017915; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:25 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 647BA67A4C; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:18:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83d0nzmzmr.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:28:28 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6479=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6479> : inlines <7014> : streams <1812653> : uri <2794162> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233194 Archived-At: >> >> Every GNU/Linux distribution provides Xft. >> > Thanks. What about non-GNU Posix hosts that run X? >> AFAIK the issue isn't GNU-vs-other but old-X vs new-X. Xft is basically >> part of what is expected of a recent enough X11 installation. We could >> drop ftx support from `master`s `configure` and see if anyone notices. > We need to disable it by default first. If we do it with a trivial change that we can easily revert before we start pretesting Emacs-27, I see no reason why we'd first need to change the default. Stefan