From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system (Jessie)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:01:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d03yk63m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bljioil6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:17:57 +0100")
>>>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:17:57 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:
Eric> On Friday, 7 Aug 2020 at 12:49, Robert Pluim wrote:
>> Or the system one is failing, in which case you can try the gnulib one
>> by unsetting HAVE_GETRANDOM in src/config.h
Eric> This worked! Thank you. I am not sure why the system one is failing
Eric> but it does seem to be the case. In any case, I now have a working
Eric> Emacs built from src with gnus, org, twittering, etc.
Glad it worked. Which millenium was this sytem from again? ;-)
Eric> It would be nice to have the option to control the use of getrandom from
Eric> the configure script to avoid having to change the generated config
Eric> files afterwards.
Emacs uses gnulib for this kind of stuff, and since itʼs all low-level
system calls, there are no configure level switches for turning it
off. Itʼs not like itʼs TLS support or an image library, which are optional.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-10 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 16:05 problems building emacs with libgpm & gnutls on an old Debian system (Jessie) Eric S Fraga
2020-08-06 17:40 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-07 10:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-07 10:49 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-10 11:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-10 13:01 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-08-10 14:10 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-10 14:21 ` Robert Pluim
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