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23.1.50; Building with dbus support

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

From: Giles Chamberlin <giles.chamberlin <at> tandberg.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; Building with dbus support
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:19:49 +0100

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Building latest emacs from CVS on Ubuntu 9.04, it appears that configure
is unable to locate the dbus libraries.  config.log reports

Running on Ubuntu 9.04, I'm having trouble building emacs from CVS with
dbus support.  config.log reports: 

configure:12289: checking for dbus-1 >= 1.0
configure:12309: result: no

and subsequent calls to make fail to compile dbusbind.c, causing
invocation of dbus-call-method to fail with a void-function error.

dbus-1 installed as per default ubuntu setup.




If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1.50/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1)
 of 2009-08-11 on ukdev-lin-grc
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10600000
configured using `configure  '--with-dbus' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

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

Major mode: Message

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<backspace> R u n n i n g SPC o n SPC U b u n t u <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> 
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g SPC t r o u b l e SPC b u i l d i n g SPC e m a c 
s SPC f r o m SPC C V S SPC w i t h SPC d b u s SPC 
s u p p o r t . SPC SPC c o n f i g u r e SPC r e p 
o r t s SPC <return> <return> C-x b c o n f <return> 
C-x b c o n f <return> C-s d b u s - C-s <down-mouse-1> 
<drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> 
<down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<drag-mouse-1> <left> <left> C-SPC M-e <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-e M-w C-x b m a <return> 
C-y <return> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> . l o g <down> <down> <up> <up> SPC <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <return> a n d SPC s u b s e q 
u e n t <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<help-echo> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> 
<help-echo> M-w M-x e m <tab> <backspace> <backspace> 
r e <tab> p <tab> i <tab> <backspace> o <tab> r <tab> 
<return>

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-- 
Giles

Message #8 received at 4126 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Giles Chamberlin <giles.chamberlin <at> tandberg.com>
Cc: 4126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4126: 23.1.50; Building with dbus support
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:02:12 -0400

Giles Chamberlin wrote:

> Running on Ubuntu 9.04, I'm having trouble building emacs from CVS with
> dbus support.  config.log reports: 
>
> configure:12289: checking for dbus-1 >= 1.0
> configure:12309: result: no
>
> and subsequent calls to make fail to compile dbusbind.c, causing
> invocation of dbus-call-method to fail with a void-function error.
>
> dbus-1 installed as per default ubuntu setup.

I don't know what that means, but Ubuntu users might.

At a guess, you need to also install the dbus development package(s),
which may be called "libdbus-1-dev".

Failing that, examine the config.log output to see exactly what the
problem is.

Message #13 received at 4126 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Giles Chamberlin <giles.chamberlin <at> tandberg.com>
Cc: 4126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#4126: 23.1.50; Building with dbus support
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:56:26 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Giles Chamberlin wrote:
>
>> Running on Ubuntu 9.04, I'm having trouble building emacs from CVS with
>> dbus support.  config.log reports: 
>>
>> configure:12289: checking for dbus-1 >= 1.0
>> configure:12309: result: no
>>
>> and subsequent calls to make fail to compile dbusbind.c, causing
>> invocation of dbus-call-method to fail with a void-function error.
>>
>> dbus-1 installed as per default ubuntu setup.
>
> I don't know what that means, but Ubuntu users might.
>
> At a guess, you need to also install the dbus development package(s),
> which may be called "libdbus-1-dev".

Yes, that's the name.

More generally speaking: there is a package emacs23 in Debian sid. Shall
jump into Ubuntu karmic soon (I guess). With this, you can install

# sudo apt-get build-dep emacs23

Manually, you can check all dependencies at
<http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/emacs23>.

Best regards, Michael.

Message #18 received at 4126 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Giles Chamberlin" <giles.chamberlin <at> tandberg.com>
To: "Glenn Morris" <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: <4126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#4126: 23.1.50; Building with dbus support
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:09:24 +0200

Thanks - you were spot on: installing libdbus-1-dev solved the problem.
So as usual this was a user problem.

Might be nice if missing libraries could be reported more clearly as
they are for the various graphics packages: png, tiff etc, to hold the
user's hand still more.  

Thanks again

Giles


-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Morris [mailto:rgm <at> gnu.org] 
Sent: 11 August 2009 18:02
To: Giles Chamberlin
Cc: 4126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4126: 23.1.50; Building with dbus support

Giles Chamberlin wrote:

> Running on Ubuntu 9.04, I'm having trouble building emacs from CVS
with
> dbus support.  config.log reports: 
>
> configure:12289: checking for dbus-1 >= 1.0
> configure:12309: result: no
>
> and subsequent calls to make fail to compile dbusbind.c, causing
> invocation of dbus-call-method to fail with a void-function error.
>
> dbus-1 installed as per default ubuntu setup.

I don't know what that means, but Ubuntu users might.

At a guess, you need to also install the dbus development package(s),
which may be called "libdbus-1-dev".

Failing that, examine the config.log output to see exactly what the
problem is.

Message #23 received at 4126-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Giles Chamberlin" <giles.chamberlin <at> tandberg.com>
Cc: 4126-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4126: 23.1.50; Building with dbus support
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:29:34 -0400

> Might be nice if missing libraries could be reported more clearly as
> they are for the various graphics packages: png, tiff etc, to hold the
> user's hand still more.

It is reported in the final configure message:

  ...
  Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  no
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              yes
  ...

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