Re: Odd problem with GNU/Emacs CVS

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-01-23 16:38 +0100, Adolfo De Unanue wrote:

> I am a big fan of GNU/Emacs, and since some years ago I always get the
> cvs version, compile it and, obviously, use it :-)
>
> Yesterday I made a "cvs up" in my source dir, I got the
> GNU/Emacs 23.0.50 version (the file README said it, 23.0.50.4 if after
> building I execute M-x emacs-version), so I followed the classical
> steps:
>
> ./compile

You mean ./configure, I guess.

> but wait the console answered me with this
>
> [...]
>
>
> Configured for `i686-pc-linux-gnu'.
>
>   Where should the build process find the source
> code?    /home/nano/software/emacs
>   What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use?
>         `s/gnu-linux.h' and `m/intel386.h'
>   What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc -g -O2
> -Wno-pointer-sign 
>   Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
>       (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.)
>   Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    yes
>   Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
>   What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
>   What toolkit should Emacs use?                          GTK
>   Where do we find X Windows header files?                Standard dirs
>   Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   Standard dirs
>   Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
>   Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   no
>   Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  no
>   Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
>   Does Emacs use a gif library?                           no 
>   Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   no
>   Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2?                                no
>   Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
>   Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars?                   yes

It's a bug that was introduced today, see the thread starting at
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/87377.

You might want to subscribe to the emacs-devel mailinglist to see the
potential breakages in time.

Sven