From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK patch - only for GTK >= version 2? (and hence GNOME 2) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:25:31 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8011-Wed15Jan2003192530+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <0B128470-28A8-11D7-9C30-00039363E640@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042651861 30460 80.91.224.249 (15 Jan 2003 17:31:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:31:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18YrNQ-0007ua-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:30:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18YrVy-0005Gq-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:39:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YrKl-0002ZA-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YrKU-0002WY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:27:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YrKS-0002Vg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from gandalf.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YrKS-0002Uu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:27:52 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky ([80.230.234.231]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.1-GA) with ESMTP id ACV81104; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:26:50 +0200 (IST) Original-To: jan.h.d@swipnet.se X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <0B128470-28A8-11D7-9C30-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) Original-cc: alexl@users.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10756 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10756 > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:40:23 +0100 > From: "Jan D." > > > > I have successfully built a version of Emacs CVS w/ GTK patch under > > Red Hat 8.0 (which ships with GTK+/GNOME 2 as standard), but was > > trying to build the same version under Slackware 8.1 which ships with > > GTK+ 1.2.10 and it fails (presumably due to the GTK+ version). > > Yes, this is by design. The main reason is that the event strategy used > for Emacs and GTK won't work with GTK 1.2 (or rather Glib 1.2). Other > reasons are that a lot of stuff that are in 1.2 has been replaced with > new things in 2.0 (like moving all event-signals to glib) and the old 1.2 > things are depreceated in 2.0. So in order to be more "future proof", > I started with for 2.0. IMHO, this should probably be mentioned in INSTALL (if it isn't already).