From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we go GTK-only? Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:33:00 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <6d82c56c-7d5b-28a7-41a9-1188a8940fcd@cs.ucla.edu> References: <24db2975-17ca-ad01-20c8-df12071fa89a@dancol.org> <4615E73A-19E2-4B79-9889-D3FA686DDDE6@raeburn.org> <83bmy0pl8p.fsf@gnu.org> <831sywp7ew.fsf@gnu.org> <83y413nsjm.fsf@gnu.org> <83funbnngl.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1ifnmto.fsf@gnu.org> <20161101152027.5e94b6cc@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83ziljm0ei.fsf@gnu.org> <83ins5nai2.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpglr8fk.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478118839 3816 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2016 20:33:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 20:33:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 02 21:33:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1c22ED-0007jz-S6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:33:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c22EG-0004FY-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c22Dd-0004FO-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c22DY-00075Q-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:37050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c22DY-00074w-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C993A160F5D for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id e85gu8dDzkO5 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3090161040 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id XhR2gpEOibpe for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C3F8160F5D for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wpglr8fk.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209128 Archived-At: On 11/02/2016 12:25 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > GNU libc on Linux in 2008, it seems: > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6952 It appears that bug was fixed in glibc 2.8 (2008). I don't think this old bug should affect decisions of how Emacs should evolve from here on. If anybody still wants to build on a pre-2008 glibc system, they can configure without GTK.