GNU bug report logs - #17508
24.3.91; Emacs without dbus support and unclear error message.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>

Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.91

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
To: 17508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17508: 24.3.91; Emacs without dbus support and unclear error message.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:23:06 +0200

When emacs is compiled --without-dbus and one runs:

emacs -Q -l notifications --eval '(notifications-notify :title "foo" :body "bar")'

the error is cryptic:

Error: (void-variable dbus-message-type-method-call)

I would in fact expect (require 'dbus) to give an error when no dbus
support is available.

(This happened to me because I had not installed dbus-1-dev prior to
recompiling emacs.)

-- 
Nico.
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