Subject: bug#32434: configure option without-xim is non-standard

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:00 -0400

Package: emacs
Version: 26.1
Severity: minor

I'd always assumed the configure option --without-xim caused Emacs to
be built without XIM support. In fact, all it does is toggle the runtime
default as to whether XIM is *used* or not.

Apparently this is intentional, see thread at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00061.html

I think it's wrong to have a build-time option for a feature that can be
controlled at run-time (by X resources).