bug#43148: 27.1; Widget text seems to disappear when building with Cairo and Xaw

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: pouar@pouar.net,  43148@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:13:10 +0200
> 
>     >> Putting on my 'let's simplify' hat, is this really a combination we
>     >> want to spend time on? Lucid + Xaw + Cairo is decidedly non-mainstream
>     >> (Iʼm surprised it even builds).
> 
>     Eli> I wasn't aware that it's a rare configuration.  We definitely support
>     Eli> Lucid, right?  If so, is Xaw the problem? and if it is, what are the
>     Eli> alternatives that are less "non-mainstream"?
> 
> Lucid + Xaw is common enough, itʼs mixing in Cairo thatʼs uncommon. To
> me, Cairo pretty much implies GTK.

Surely, given our troubled experiences with GTK, we don't want to have
it as a single toolkit supported in the Cairo build?