bug#28236: 'configure --with-cairo' causes 'emacs -font' to fail

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 28236@debbugs.gnu.org,  ari.roponen@gmail.com,  andrei.elkin@pp.inet.fi, 
>>  dgutov@yandex.ru
>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:34:54 +0100
>> 
>> So xfns.c only initializes the xfont driver when not using Cairo. I
>> made the obvious changes there, and 'emacs -Q -fn 7x14' starts up, and
>> 'C-u C-x =' tells me:
>> 
>>  x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 (#x68)
>> 
>> Unfortunately *scratch* does not (re-)display properly
>
> Can you tell more details about this improper redisplay?

I see text for the menu-bar, but *scratch* looks empty (and thereʼs no
text displayed in the mode-line). The text is actually there in
*scratch*, though.

I donʼt think this is a viable path to look at, especially given Ari's
workaround of copying the required fonts.

Robert