bug#20949: 25.0.50; dbus-error "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"

bug#20949: 25.0.50; dbus-error "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"

[Artur Malabarba]

This error happens whenever I start Emacs, which I've compiled myself on an
Ubuntu machine with no special options. I understand why the error
happens (erc is trying to use some dbus stuff) I just don't understand
why my emacs doesn't have dbus support.

Looking through the INSTALL file shows that `configure' has an option for
disabling dbus support (which I didn't specify), but I don't see an
option for requesting it.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23)
 of 2015-07-01 on it055607
Repository revision: cc8f96e6e19ad3f56631f432e088590a8cf8535d
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT
ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
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  erc-list-mode: t
  erc-menu-mode: t
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  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
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  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  jabber-activity-mode: t
  global-aggressive-indent-mode: t
  aggressive-indent-mode: t
  company-statistics-mode: t
  global-company-mode: t
  company-mode: t
  yas-global-mode: t
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  google-this-mode: t
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  column-number-mode: t
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Recent messages:
Logging in as 'Malabarba'... done
Server connected: "1.0.0"
Logging in as 'Malabarba'... done
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bug#20949: 25.0.50; dbus-error "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"

[Alexis]

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> This error happens whenever I start Emacs, which I've compiled 
> myself on an Ubuntu machine with no special options. I 
> understand why the error happens (erc is trying to use some dbus 
> stuff) I just don't understand why my emacs doesn't have dbus 
> support.
>
> Looking through the INSTALL file shows that `configure' has an 
> option for disabling dbus support (which I didn't specify), but 
> I don't see an option for requesting it.

i imagine you've already checked this, but are the relevant 
libdbus*-dev libraries installed on your system? My experience is 
that if they are, the configure script will enable dbus support 
automatically ....


Alexis.

bug#20949: 25.0.50; dbus-error "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"

[Artur Malabarba]

I had not! Thanks, that solved the problem.

2015-07-01 9:08 GMT+01:00 Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>:
>
> Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This error happens whenever I start Emacs, which I've compiled myself on
>> an Ubuntu machine with no special options. I understand why the error
>> happens (erc is trying to use some dbus stuff) I just don't understand why
>> my emacs doesn't have dbus support.
>>
>> Looking through the INSTALL file shows that `configure' has an option for
>> disabling dbus support (which I didn't specify), but I don't see an option
>> for requesting it.
>
>
> i imagine you've already checked this, but are the relevant libdbus*-dev
> libraries installed on your system? My experience is that if they are, the
> configure script will enable dbus support automatically ....
>
>
> Alexis.
>
>
>

bug#20949: 25.0.50; dbus-error "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 08:56:03 +0100
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> 
> This error happens whenever I start Emacs, which I've compiled myself on an
> Ubuntu machine with no special options. I understand why the error
> happens (erc is trying to use some dbus stuff) I just don't understand
> why my emacs doesn't have dbus support.

The answer to such questions is usually in your config.log.  Look
there for the dbus-related tests and their results.

bug#20949: 25.0.50; dbus-error "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"

[Artur Malabarba]

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On Jul 1, 2015 4:26 PM, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 08:56:03 +0100
> > From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> >
> > This error happens whenever I start Emacs, which I've compiled myself
on an
> > Ubuntu machine with no special options. I understand why the error
> > happens (erc is trying to use some dbus stuff) I just don't understand
> > why my emacs doesn't have dbus support.
>
> The answer to such questions is usually in your config.log.  Look
> there for the dbus-related tests and their results.

Thanks Eli, that's good to know.

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