Subject: Re: bug#12332: 24.2.50; forgetting --without-gconf leads to crash at launch

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 13:17:04 +0200

Hello.

2012-09-02 11:46, Peter Dyballa skrev:

>   src/emacs
>
> (process:83853): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function
>
> (process:83853): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
>
> (process:83853): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> Fatal error (10)Bus error (core dumped)
> Exit 138
>
>

Fixed in trunk.  GConf uses Gobject (where g_type_init is), but does not list 
it as a link time dependency, it apparently is linked in at runtime.  Thus, 
configure for Emacs does not find g_type_init and does not call it.

	Jan D.