From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 08:07:01 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.20.1805310802250.25280@freddy.simplesystems.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760341amh.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 31 May 2018, Robert Pluim wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
>>>
>>> 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.
I removed the 'xwidgets' request and then emacs compiles and runs
fine. This is good since I must use this Ubuntu version for the
moment.
The hard configure error which does not indicate to the user what
corrective action should be taken (other than looking in config.log)
is not good.
If there are specific package versions required, then they should be
listed in the installation documentation.
Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-31 13:07 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
2018-05-31 9:11 ` joakim
2018-05-31 13:07 ` Bob Friesenhahn [this message]
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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