Re: unicode-2 branch segfaulting on MacOS X?

[Geoffrey Alan Washburn]

Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> > But rebuilding the fc-cache now returns:
> >
> > % fc-list 'bitstream vera sans mono' width
> > :width=100
> > %
> >
> > Hmmm :)
>
>     Yes, doing the same worked for me.  At least with regards to 
> 'fc-list'.  The latest emacs-unicode-2 (at least as of yesterday 
> morning) was still not seeing the width attribute even though 'fc-list' 
> now does. However, thinking about it now, it is quite likely that I have 
> multiple versions of 'fc-list' installed on my computer, so maybe I 
> should query them all to see if somehow the fontconfig library emacs is 
> being linked against isn't still confused.

	After some additional research I determined that the system installed 
version of fontconfig did not seem to handle the width attribute 
properly, but the Darwin Ports install of fontconfig did.  So after some 
futzing with CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH when running 
configure, I was able to finally get emacs-unicode-2 running without any 
apparent problems.

	So if anyone else happens to have this problem, make sure the version 
of fontconfig you're linking against on MacOS X isn't broken.