[Bug: 21.5-b27] Can't move cursor in edit-faces buffer

[Ron Isaacson]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> Ron Isaacson writes:
> 
>  > You might argue that #1 is our problem, and that if you specify
>  > --with-cppflags, that's an override to the default behavior of
>  > inheriting CPPFLAGS. We've got an easy workaround for that, but it
>  > still might be something to consider.
> 
> It's not properly documented, so that's our problem.
> 
> Does `configure --with-cppflags="-newflag $CPPFLAGS" ...' work in your
> application?

Yup, that was exactly the workaround we found. Real tricky. :-)

>  I think that having the `--with-WHATEVERflags' options
> override the corresponding environment variables is easier to
> explain.  It's certainly easier to code!
> 
>     This option overrides the environment.  If you wish to include the
>     flags that may have been specified in CPPFLAGS, this must be done
>     explicitly: `--with-cppflags="-addlflag $CPPFLAGS"'.

I think that would do the trick.

Incidentally, once we got this sorted out, customize-face did indeed
work, both with xft and without! Go figure!

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