Re: font problem from emacs 23.3 to 23.4???

[rusi]

On Jul 28, 7:35 am, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 12:51 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
>
> > I think you understand the code and can adapt it to your problem. Otherwise 
> > browse through the
> > Emacs Wiki (or the built-in documentation).
>
> Thanks -- Ill try this.
> However my direction is the other way round.  I want to make defaults
> that 'just work' on more systems without tweaking.  Because otherwise
> the code is broken for most people.
>
> In particular, I need a way of saying:
> "Get any unicode font (and not a very localised font like sahadeva)"
>
> After that people may tweak the font to their taste.
> So I need to understand (probably?) the layer between emacs and the
> system (xft?) where automatic font selection happens.
>
> Or... (to explain the mechanics bit):
> I have one personal setup (in /home)
> There are two OSes which I can boot (Let me call them old and new)
> Old works and uses emacs 23.3
> New does not and uses 23.4
>
> However much else is 'upgraded.'  And broken -- xft? xfce? xserver?
> some specific fonts?
> Dont know how to search...
>
> So I thought: Let me mount old OS in new and try running the mounted
> emacs23.3.
> This way I can check whether the emacs 23.3 -> 23.4 is broken or
> something else.
>
> However I get:
>
> $ /mnt/p/usr/bin/emacs23
> Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/usr/lib/emacs/23.3/i486-linux-gnu/)
> does not exist.
> Warning: arch-independent data dir (/usr/share/emacs/23.3/etc/) does
> not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp' does
> not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp' does not
> exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/23.3/leim' does not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp' does not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/23.3/leim' does not exist.
> Error: charsets directory (/usr/share/emacs/23.3/etc/charsets) does
> not exist.
> Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
> Please check your installation!
> Warning: Could not find simple.el nor simple.elc
> Cannot open load file: warnings

Ok...
So I softlinked these non-existing 23.3 directories in / to mounted
old ones.
Now emacs23.3 could start.
And I get the same error.

So its not an emacs change that has caused the breakage but something
else outside.

Any thoughts on how to proceed?