From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs? Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <45878CD9.7020703@swipnet.se> <45884D35.7090402@swipnet.se> <45895E29.4050203@swipnet.se> <87y7p2zfi7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8764c5uv7s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vek4dcpi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166904835 22933 80.91.229.10 (23 Dec 2006 20:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 23 21:13:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GyDFd-0008RP-SE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:13:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyDFd-0003Wq-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyDFP-0003Vs-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyDFO-0003Vg-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyDFN-0003Va-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GyDFN-0006OT-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GyDFI-0008TH-6V; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:28 -0500 Original-To: Chong Yidong In-reply-to: <87vek4dcpi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:57:29 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64166 Archived-At: > That's not so bad. Most users don't need to rebuild the configure > file, so they won't have a problem. > > However, we could ask the Autoconf developers to release a patched > version 2.59.1 which fixes this bug and doesn't require a new M4. On the other hand, most users don't compile Emacs at all; they use pre-packaged binaries; those that do compile Emacs can surely install libXt-dev. I don't remember all the details of the problem. If libXt-dev is not installed, what happens when configure is correctly built with autoconf 2.61? Does compilation fail because libXt-dev includes things needed for compilation? Or does compilation work?