GNU bug report logs - #17435
RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Crick <dacrick <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 19:38:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 17118

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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.)




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