From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs? Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:36 -0500 Message-ID: <87y7p2zfi7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <45878CD9.7020703@swipnet.se> <45884D35.7090402@swipnet.se> <45895E29.4050203@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166633053 20060 80.91.229.10 (20 Dec 2006 16:44:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Leo , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 20 17:44:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gx4Y1-0005Yx-93 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:44:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gx4Y0-00026b-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gx4VU-0000cH-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gx4VS-0000aF-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gx4VS-0000a0-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.19.1.138] (helo=cyd.mit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gx4VR-0003Tu-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 17CB04E450; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:41:37 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= In-Reply-To: <45895E29.4050203@swipnet.se> (Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv's?= message of "Wed\, 20 Dec 2006 17\:00\:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64016 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: > Leo skrev: >> * Jan Dj=C3=A4rv (2006-12-19 21:36 +0100) said: >> ^^^^^^^^^ >>> It does indeed look like -lXt is needed to detect X11. This is all >>> in autoconfig, the macro AC_PATH_X. I guess we could file a bug >>> report on autoconfig. -lXt is not needed for Gtk+. >> >> Thank you for looking into this :-) > > I looked at the sources for autoconf, and this bug has been fixed in > autoconf 2.61: > > Revision 1.22 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs] > Sat Aug 12 18:33:46 2006 UTC (4 months, 1 week ago) by eggert > Branch: MAIN > CVS Tags: AUTOCONF-2_60a > Changes since 1.21: +1 -1 lines > Diff to previous 1.21 > > * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Replace another > check for libXt by a check for libX11. > > Unfortunately I used 2.60 when I generated configure. I regenerate configure each time I roll a pretest tarball, using autoconf 2.59. As I understand, this is the "safe" version of autoconf we've been using all through the release process.