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RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs

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From: David Crick <dacrick <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 20:37:44 +0100

RHBA-2014:0303-1:

The previous rebase to GLib 2.26 added the GSettings API, but without the
gsettings-desktop-schemas package. As a consequence, some programs
(such as OpenJDK or VMWare) attempted to use GSettings, but since
gsettings-desktop-schemas was absent, these programs terminated unexpectedly.
This update removes GSettings from glib2, and the crashes now no longer occur.



Unfortunately this now breaks compilation of emacs from stock source
(emacs-24.3):

xsettings.o: In function `something_changed_gsettingsCB':
xsettings.c:(.text+0x33f): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x3db): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x46d): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.o: In function `init_gsettings':
xsettings.c:(.text+0x1791): undefined reference to `g_settings_list_schemas'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x17f2): undefined reference to `g_settings_new'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x187a): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x18f0): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'
xsettings.c:(.text+0x1966): undefined reference to `g_settings_get_value'


Rolling back to an earlier version of the glib2 RPMs results in Emacs
compiling OK again.

Message #8 received at 17435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: David Crick <dacrick <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17435: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation
 of Emacs
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 15:45:40 -0400

David Crick wrote:

> RHBA-2014:0303-1:
>
> The previous rebase to GLib 2.26 added the GSettings API, but without the
> gsettings-desktop-schemas package. As a consequence, some programs
> (such as OpenJDK or VMWare) attempted to use GSettings, but since
> gsettings-desktop-schemas was absent, these programs terminated unexpectedly.
> This update removes GSettings from glib2, and the crashes now no longer occur.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately this now breaks compilation of emacs from stock source
> (emacs-24.3):

This is a duplicate of http://debbugs.gnu.org/17118 .

It's already fixed in Emacs for the upcoming 24.4 release.
Or you can simply work around it by using
    configure --without-gsettings

(I wonder if anyone actually reported this to Red Hat, who it seems to
me are responsible.)

Message #13 received at 17435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Crick <dacrick <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17435: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation
 of Emacs
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 20:49:55 +0100

Apologies for the dupe.

Thanks for the info.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> David Crick wrote:
>
>> RHBA-2014:0303-1:
>>
>> The previous rebase to GLib 2.26 added the GSettings API, but without the
>> gsettings-desktop-schemas package. As a consequence, some programs
>> (such as OpenJDK or VMWare) attempted to use GSettings, but since
>> gsettings-desktop-schemas was absent, these programs terminated unexpectedly.
>> This update removes GSettings from glib2, and the crashes now no longer occur.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately this now breaks compilation of emacs from stock source
>> (emacs-24.3):
>
> This is a duplicate of http://debbugs.gnu.org/17118 .
>
> It's already fixed in Emacs for the upcoming 24.4 release.
> Or you can simply work around it by using
>     configure --without-gsettings
>
> (I wonder if anyone actually reported this to Red Hat, who it seems to
> me are responsible.)

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