From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: merging of the xwidget branch to master
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 09:43:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fw0snyz.fsf@bernoul.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oapdiqhh.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
>> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:55:22 +0100
>> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> joakim@verona.se writes:
>>
>> > ./configure --with-xwidgets --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
>>
>> What additinal packages do I have to install? I am on Debian and the
>> only package I have installed specifically for this is libwebkitgtk-dev.
>> After doing that I still get:
>>
>> What window system should Emacs use? x11
>> What toolkit should Emacs use? GTK3
>> ...
>> Does Emacs support Xwidgets? no
>> Does xwidgets support webkit(requires gtk3)? no
>> Does xwidgets support gobject introspection? no
>
> As another comment on the configure script in this area, I would
> suggest a prominent error message if xwidgets were requested, but the
> configure script decided not to turn on this option. Currently, it
> does that silently (except for the above indication, which can easily
> get lost among the others), which IMO is bad UI. If the user asked
> for xwidgets, but we cannot give it, we should complain loudly.
I had similar issues with other options, e.g. `--with-imagemagick'
did not work because the installed version is to old (Debian lagging
behind), but I also got no warning except for the "no" which quickly
scrolled by.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-02 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 14:43 merging of the xwidget branch to master joakim
2015-02-01 0:46 ` joakim
2015-02-01 5:58 ` Dmitry Antipov
2015-02-01 8:32 ` joakim
2015-02-01 9:55 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2015-02-01 10:24 ` joakim
2015-02-03 16:31 ` Steinar Bang
2015-02-03 19:58 ` David Engster
2015-02-03 20:23 ` joakim
2015-02-03 20:39 ` David Engster
2015-02-03 21:20 ` joakim
2015-02-03 22:01 ` David Engster
2015-02-01 10:41 ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-02 8:40 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2015-02-01 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-02 8:43 ` Jonas Bernoulli [this message]
2015-02-02 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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