Bug#3119: emacs font handling

[Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 27 May 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Further information:
>
> I've compared (by md5sum and `dpkg -l') the libraries and Emacs on
> valour (Austin's machine, where Emacs has no trouble) and they're all
> the same except for libc5, where I'm one revision ahead of Austin, and
> libncurses.so.3.0.  I have 1.9.9e-1 - Austin, what is installed on
> valour?
>
> Austin, if you don't mind, do you think you could try upgrading valour
> to libc5-5.2.18-6?  Then try and do something with Emacs set to the
> 6x13 font (resize windows, start Info with C-H I, that sort of thing).

I'm now running libc5.2.18-6, and emacs has no problems. Try whatever
it is you do to get emacs to core dump, but it's perfectly happy with
me; I've even read my email in 6x13.

> Then try the same with ncurses3.0-1.9.9e-1, but don't do them both at
> once otherwise we'll not know which it is (if it's anything at all to
> do with either of them!)  My money would be on the libc rather than
> ncurses.

Ah - I'd rather not upgrade ncurses right now; my entire system might
fall over, and I don't want to nurse it back to health right at this
moment.

Austin