From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32434: configure option without-xim is non-standard Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:00 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534206473 2603 195.159.176.226 (14 Aug 2018 00:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:27:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) To: 32434@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 14 02:27:49 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNBd-0000a3-4u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 02:27:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNDj-00076K-M6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNCp-0006U2-Ir for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNCo-0001Sy-PC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:45004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNCo-0001Sq-KL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNCo-0003RG-Bw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:29:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:29:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 32434 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: submit@debbugs.gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.153420649013152 (code B ref -1); Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:29:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Aug 2018 00:28:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50021 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNBy-0003Q3-HV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50732) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNBx-0003Pr-3B for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNBq-00019g-NT for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNBq-00019c-Jd for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fpNBo-0007sf-JD; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:00 -0400 X-Attribution: GM X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:149487 Archived-At: Package: emacs Version: 26.1 Severity: minor I'd always assumed the configure option --without-xim caused Emacs to be built without XIM support. In fact, all it does is toggle the runtime default as to whether XIM is *used* or not. Apparently this is intentional, see thread at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00061.html I think it's wrong to have a build-time option for a feature that can be controlled at run-time (by X resources).