Subject: bug#21393: cannot compile GNU emacs git (1 sep 2015)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:10:22 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:48:42 -0400
> 
> 
> It should be established what the minimum versions of these libraries
> are that Emacs needs, and then configure.ac should test for those
> versions (that bit's easy, just put "foo > x" in the relevant
> EMACS_CHECK_MODULES calls).

That's one solution.  But since Emacs did build a day ago with that
old version, I guess it could continue to be possible to build it,
just by giving up on those new-and-improved bits.