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Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:17 +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> >> 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin
> >> emacs after the recent update of the GNOME libraries. To reproduce,
> >> install the emacs-X11 package and start emacs with the command `emacs&'
> >> in an xterm window.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce this. Does installing font-cantarell-otf help?
> > Perhaps another font?
>
> I can reproduce it, in fact almost every gtk-enabled application spits
> that out. I tried stracing, and I think (but I'm not sure) that the
> warning appears after pango tries to load
> /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.dll -> there is no
> /usr/lib/pango directory on my system, and it seems that no package in
> cygwin or ports repository provides it.
That's the clue I needed. I switched pango to builtin modules over a
year ago in Ports to help minimize fork() errors, but that didn't reach
the distro until now. If I'm right, removing /etc/pango/pango.modules
should fix it.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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