Subject: bug#4126: 23.1.50; Building with dbus support

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
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.