bug#17435: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs

bug#17435: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs

[David Crick]

RHBA-2014:0303-1:

The previous rebase to GLib 2.26 added the GSettings API, but without the
gsettings-desktop-schemas package. As a consequence, some programs
(such as OpenJDK or VMWare) attempted to use GSettings, but since
gsettings-desktop-schemas was absent, these programs terminated unexpectedly.
This update removes GSettings from glib2, and the crashes now no longer occur.



Unfortunately this now breaks compilation of emacs from stock source
(emacs-24.3):

xsettings.o: In function `something_changed_gsettingsCB':
xsettings.c:(.text+0x33f): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x3db): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x46d): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.o: In function `init_gsettings':
xsettings.c:(.text+0x1791): undefined reference to `g_settings_list_schemas'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x17f2): undefined reference to `g_settings_new'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x187a): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x18f0): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x1966): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'


Rolling back to an earlier version of the glib2 RPMs results in Emacs
compiling OK again.

bug#17435: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs

[Glenn Morris]

David Crick wrote:

> RHBA-2014:0303-1:
>
> The previous rebase to GLib 2.26 added the GSettings API, but without the
> gsettings-desktop-schemas package. As a consequence, some programs
> (such as OpenJDK or VMWare) attempted to use GSettings, but since
> gsettings-desktop-schemas was absent, these programs terminated unexpectedly.
> This update removes GSettings from glib2, and the crashes now no longer occur.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately this now breaks compilation of emacs from stock source
> (emacs-24.3):

This is a duplicate of http://debbugs.gnu.org/17118 .

It's already fixed in Emacs for the upcoming 24.4 release.
Or you can simply work around it by using
    configure --without-gsettings

(I wonder if anyone actually reported this to Red Hat, who it seems to
me are responsible.)

bug#17435: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs

[David Crick]

Apologies for the dupe.

Thanks for the info.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> David Crick wrote:
>
>> RHBA-2014:0303-1:
>>
>> The previous rebase to GLib 2.26 added the GSettings API, but without the
>> gsettings-desktop-schemas package. As a consequence, some programs
>> (such as OpenJDK or VMWare) attempted to use GSettings, but since
>> gsettings-desktop-schemas was absent, these programs terminated unexpectedly.
>> This update removes GSettings from glib2, and the crashes now no longer occur.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately this now breaks compilation of emacs from stock source
>> (emacs-24.3):
>
> This is a duplicate of http://debbugs.gnu.org/17118 .
>
> It's already fixed in Emacs for the upcoming 24.4 release.
> Or you can simply work around it by using
>     configure --without-gsettings
>
> (I wonder if anyone actually reported this to Red Hat, who it seems to
> me are responsible.)