From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Abysmal state of GTK build Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:03:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ilm3zsjx.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19503"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Payas Relekar Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 05 06:13:12 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3Tz-0004r9-Uk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 06:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45910 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3Ty-0002OW-Rt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3L4-0003D6-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3L3-0000EY-VF; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:03:57 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=EJhi+fjTvu5QnY567gnlDB/g4Gqn1BPjUBKzd3hM/Vg=; b=PjlfvXftL/a8 w9hJj2UZ+c9CObXDk0BwLiZqnATPkD2SA3K6SpUuMuohhgAts91zM0KxDhWCCAB2jVeKnuFGc3E/e 28g1qQBuiDKBCChJ6bYGv9jZ0m5wrJIVS04eA1uLNuLzucB3dRE9q3CIRpHAefZ7gQNpq4/AzueQV REbk5ZXv2cDbqb6NPZNYEYulzOFGrE23YgIbO8m7hOrd+990YGDiCX1+/4HqQ/UhnzbOQ7C2lUl/f vpyktVQi9nntpWsQWMNQXIa3wdr/2oG7lDLL6kGYprQq4TDxUJ/lFIVcuUueg7tOQVkWKM8m5R+Gw x1MaMcjefCBTg38ljZaTsQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3L3-0006EK-KS; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:03:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ilm3zsjx.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Payas Relekar on Sun, 04 Sep 2022 09:38:49 +0530) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294726 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Maybe the Mate developers would be interested in the idea of making > > a modified version of GTK 3 to fix this. > > > > It might be easy to do by compiling GTK 3 with a macro definition > > to define _exit to call some function we would define. > GTK3 is already on the way out, as GTK4 is being ready for release. I don't think this changes the issue. If they want to use GTK 4, just replace "3" with "4" in what I said. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)