* bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1
@ 2014-08-09 22:53 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2014-08-09 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2014-08-09 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 18235
$ emacs -nw -q
emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
True, my system is broken today.
However perhaps to increase resilliance,
maybe if the user uses -nw,
perhaps that X stuff can not be attempted to get pulled in.
That way a single emacs binary,
would also be useful,
for those days when one is repairing their system.
So no need to install a separate emacs-non-x package...
when in fact the system might be in such bad shape to make installation impossible, etc.
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* bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1
2014-08-09 22:53 bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2014-08-09 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-10 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-08-09 23:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 18235-done
What you ask for is not possible.
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* bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1
2014-08-09 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2014-08-10 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-08-10 1:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 18235; +Cc: jidanni
> What you ask for is not possible.
Of course, nothing's impossible. E.g. We could change Emacs to use dynamic
loading of X libraries (a crap load of work for very little benefit).
But another avenue would be to lobby the GNU/Linux people working on
ld.so so that we can mark some libraries as "not indispensable", in
which case their absence wouldn't cause an error: instead the symbols
would be resolved such that using one of their functions signals
an error.
Stefan
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