Subject: bug#47249: 27.0.50; configure uses nextstep despite being told to use lucid

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:18:16 -0400

Markus Triska wrote:

>     $ ./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include/ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib
[...]
>   What window system should Emacs use?                    nextstep
>   ...
>
> I.e., it uses nextstep despite being told to use lucid.

nextstep is a windowing system, lucid is a toolkit used for the X
windowing system (hence the --with-x- part of the option).
The default windowing system for Mac OS is nextstep.
Specifying --with-x-toolkit does not act to force the X window system.

> In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.0.0, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
>  of 2018-11-15 built on mac
> Repository revision: b4eb908f858284a7962851fd99c94598f76afa6f

Just to point out, this is ancient.