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23.0.90; during configuration unwanted preference of /usr/X11

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.90; during configuration unwanted preference of /usr/X11
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:45:03 +0100

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Hello!

When I configure GNU Emacs the script has an unwanted preference of / 
usr/X11 as default of the X11 installation. On my system, Mac OS X  
10.4.11 (Tiger), this is a non-standard (non-Apple) installation of a  
self-compiled X11R7.4 (in Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard, it is the default;  
up to Tiger /usr/X11R6 is the default). Because of reasons I did not  
find yet any version of GNU Emacs built from a mix of /usr/X11 plus  
the usual /usr/X11R6 and /sw trees does not work, although the X11 I  
am running uses /usr/X11. So I have to rename /usr/X11 to /usr/X12,  
or such, that a useful GNU Emacs update gets configured.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, GTK+ Version 2.14.7)
 of 2009-02-11 on localhost
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version  
11.0.10402000
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- 
with-dbus' '--with-libotf' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/ 
Emacs' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'CFLAGS=-Wno-pointer-sign -H -pipe - 
fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -fast -mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize - 
foptimize-register-move -freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks-and- 
partition -fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno-crossjumping' 'CXXFLAGS=-no- 
cpp-precomp -I/opt/local/include' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -I/opt/ 
local/include' 'LDFLAGS=-dead_strip -multiply_defined suppress -L/opt/ 
local/lib' 'PKG_CONFIG=/opt/local/bin/pkg-config''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Man

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t


--
Greetings

  Pete
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Message #10 received at 2285 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 2285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; indeterminate X11 "standard dirs"
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:31:01 -0500

> So it's not sufficient when configure summarises in the end:
>
>   Where do we find X Windows header files?                Standard dirs
>   Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   Standard dirs
>
> Which are the so-called "standard dirs?"

If you explicitly specify where to find

  ./configure --x-libraries=FOO --x-includes=BAR

then the build process will use that, and the configuration report will
report what you have chosen.  I don't know, off the top of my head,
whether it's possible to extract the information that you want.  It
might be the case that Emacs just lets compiler try to find the header
files and libraries by itself.

I'd prefer not to muck around with the configuration too much during
pretest, but we can look into it after the release.

Message #17 received at 2285-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 2285-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; during configuration unwanted preference of /usr/X11
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:33:38 -0500

> When I configure GNU Emacs the script has an unwanted preference of /
> usr/X11 as default of the X11 installation. On my system, Mac OS X
> 10.4.11 (Tiger), this is a non-standard (non-Apple) installation of a
> self-compiled X11R7.4

In that case, I suggest using the --x-libraries and --x-includes options
to configure.

Message #22 received at 2285 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 2285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; indeterminate X11 "standard dirs"
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:31:08 +0100

Am 11.02.2009 um 15:31 schrieb Chong Yidong:

> I don't know, off the top of my head,
> whether it's possible to extract the information that you want.


It once (beginning of October 2008) was the standard to report these  
details:

  Where do we find X Windows header files?                /usr/X11R6/ 
include
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   /usr/X11R6/ 
lib

When I pass --x-includes=/opt/local/include --x-libraries=/opt/local/ 
lib to configure it at least reports:

  Where do we find X Windows header files?                /opt/local/ 
include
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   /opt/local/ 
lib


Thinking a bit further on my problem, it seems to be adequate to  
state --x-includes=FOO --x-libraries=BAR on a system with more than  
one X11 installation instead of hoping that my compiler flags will  
work it out... But anyway, I would like to see a positive feedback/ 
report!

--
Greetings

  Pete

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary  
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
		-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

Message #27 received at 2285 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 2285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; indeterminate X11 "standard dirs"
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:06:15 -0500

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE> writes:

> It once (beginning of October 2008) was the standard to report these
> details:
>
>   Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include
>   Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib

That's strange.  According to vc-annotate, this part of the configure
code has not changed in about 10 years.

> When I pass --x-includes=/opt/local/include --x-libraries=/opt/local/
> lib to configure it at least reports:
>
>   Where do we find X Windows header files? /opt/local/include
>   Where do we find X Windows libraries? /opt/local/lib

Yes, I know.  In this case, the arguments you pass are directly stored
and reported.

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