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Subject: Re: make bootstrap fails on w32/MinGW
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> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:46:51 +0000
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> I don't recommend using the 
> font-backend right now, it appears to have broken in the past few weeks 
> (characters in the default face are too big, others are the correct size).

Can someone "in the know" please post an explanation of the
font-backend feature, and what are its advantages/disadvantages?
AFAICS, there's nothing about this in INSTALL or in NEWS.