FYI: QuickTime 7.0.4 breakage

FYI: QuickTime 7.0.4 breakage

[Lennart Staflin]

On MacOS X 10.3.9 with QuickTime 7.0.4 building Emacs (Carbon, not X11) 
fails with:

ld: Undefined symbols:
_HICopyAccessibilityActionDescription referenced from QuickTime 
expected to be defined in Carbon
_HICopyAccessibilityRoleDescription referenced from QuickTime expected 
to be defined in Carbon
_LLCStyleInfoCheckForOpenTypeTables referenced from QuickTime expected 
to be defined in ApplicationServices
_LLCStyleInfoGetUserRunFeatures referenced from QuickTime expected to 
be defined in ApplicationServices


I think this is caused by QuickTime 7.0.4. I reinstalled 7.0.1 and that 
fixes it.

//Lennart Staflin

Re: FYI: QuickTime 7.0.4 breakage

[Richard M. Stallman]

What does Emacs use Quicktime for?
I am very concerned about this.  It might be a GPL violation,
but if it isn't it still might be a very bad thing for Emacs to
work with a proprietary video format.

Re: FYI: QuickTime 7.0.4 breakage

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:38:38 -0500, "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> said:

> What does Emacs use Quicktime for?  I am very concerned about this.
> It might be a GPL violation, but if it isn't it still might be a
> very bad thing for Emacs to work with a proprietary video format.

For decoding PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF images.  Nothing more.
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-01/msg00230.html)
And I think QuickTime is "normally distributed with the major
components of the operating system on which the executable runs" for
the case that "the operating system" is Mac OS.

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

Re: FYI: QuickTime 7.0.4 breakage

[Richard M. Stallman]

    For decoding PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF images.  Nothing more.

I did not know QuickTime was the way to do that on the Mac.

There is no problem, I think.