From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:40:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760341amh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.20.1805301645140.26512@scrappy.simplesystems.org> (Bob Friesenhahn's message of "Wed, 30 May 2018 16:51:37 -0500 (CDT)")
Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
> On Mon, 28 May 2018, Nicolas Petton wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Version 26.1 of the Emacs text editor is now available.
>
> I tried configuring this new Emacs like
>
> ./configure '--with-xwidgets'
>
> on a somewhat old (but still supported) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release but
> encounter this error:
>
> configure:12632: checking for WEBKIT
> configure:12639: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "$WEBKIT_MODULES"
> Package webkit2gtk-4.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `webkit2gtk-4.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'webkit2gtk-4.0' found
>
> There was no mention in the release notes that versions still in heavy
> use were being abandoned and that Emacs could only be built on
> brand-new Linux releases.
Thatʼs a somewhat unfair statement: emacs 26 works fine on Ubuntu
14.04 as far as I know, itʼs just the xwidgets support that doesnʼt,
so in no way is there any 'abandonment' going on.
The change should perhaps have been mentioned in NEWS, but I believe
xwidgets is still classed as experimental, so perhaps not.
> This system comes with libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev. It is prohibitive to
> attempt to install anything newer since the whole software stack would
> need to be replaced.
Emacs moved to the WebKit2 API in October of 2016. Iʼm assuming there
were good reasons for not trying to support the older API as well. Iʼm
also assuming there were good reasons for nobody running Ubuntu 14.04
to attempt to build emacs with xwidget support since then.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-31 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-28 14:14 [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Nicolas Petton
2018-05-28 14:38 ` Tino Calancha
2018-05-30 12:47 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2018-05-30 21:02 ` Phillip Lord
2018-05-30 23:20 ` Tak Kunihiro
[not found] ` <d128f41704af0d075e5a8c04b7d8f9e8.squirrel@cloud103.planethippo.com>
2018-06-01 7:29 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-05-30 21:51 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2018-05-31 8:40 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-05-31 9:11 ` joakim
2018-05-31 13:07 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2018-05-31 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 15:34 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2018-05-31 15:45 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-31 16:09 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2018-05-31 15:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-01 6:55 ` glitchy gotcha message (Was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released) Van L
2018-05-31 16:04 ` [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01 2:58 ` Python stack with vc and hg on 26.1 (was [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released) Mike Kupfer
2018-06-06 14:48 ` [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Joshua Branson
2018-06-01 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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