Problems with emacs built against gtk3

[Ken Brown]

On 11/30/2011 6:54 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> 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.

That fixes it.  Thanks.

Ken


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