bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1

bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

$ emacs -nw -q
emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

True, my system is broken today.
However perhaps to increase resilliance,
maybe if the user uses -nw,
perhaps that X stuff can not be attempted to get pulled in.

That way a single emacs binary,
would also be useful,
for those days when one is repairing their system.

So no need to install a separate emacs-non-x package...
when in fact the system might be in such bad shape to make installation impossible, etc.

bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1

[Glenn Morris]

What you ask for is not possible.

bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1

[Stefan Monnier]

> What you ask for is not possible.

Of course, nothing's impossible.  E.g. We could change Emacs to use dynamic
loading of X libraries (a crap load of work for very little benefit).

But another avenue would be to lobby the GNU/Linux people working on
ld.so so that we can mark some libraries as "not indispensable", in
which case their absence wouldn't cause an error: instead the symbols
would be resolved such that using one of their functions signals
an error.


        Stefan