Subject: Re: bug#21841: 25.0.50; auto-revert-mode broken when several files have modifications on disk

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:44:05 +0200

> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:16:26 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> On 11/07/2015 12:07 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> 
> > I've added auto-revert-test01-auto-revert-several-files to
> > auto-revert-tests.el. With backend inotify it reproduces your
> > problem. With gfilenotify, the test passes.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> But my ./configure output contains this:
> 
> checking whether GLib is linked in... yes
> ...
>    Does Emacs use a file notification library?      yes -lglibc (inotify)
> 
> Could you suggest how I can make Emacs use gfilenotify in Ubuntu?

You can do that by giving the --with-file-notification=gfile switch to
configure (see "./configure --help").