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23.1.90; --without-dbus fails

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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#5253: 23.1.90;  --without-dbus fails
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:56:30 +0100

Hello!

When configuring  --without-dbus  this fails, because GConf is used  
and it has:

checking GCONF_CFLAGS... -DORBIT2=1 -I/sw/include/gconf/2 -I/sw/ 
include/orbit-2.0 -I/sw/include/dbus-1.0 -I/sw/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/ 
sw/include/glib-2.0 -I/sw/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking GCONF_LIBS... -L/sw/lib -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lm -ldbus-1 - 
lpthread -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl - 
liconv

In the end it is reported:

  Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 yes
  Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              yes

But then, when I look at the libraries used, libdbus *is* used. I can  
only get red of it completely when I also configure --without-gconf.

--
Greetings

  Pete

A morning without coffee is like something without something else.

Message #6 received at 5253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Jan Djärv  <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>, 5253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5253: 23.1.90;  --without-dbus fails
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:39:00 -0500

Hi Jan, could you take a look at this bug report from a few weeks ago?
IIUC, Peter Dyballa is compiling on Mac OS X with the X11 and GTK
libraries, but I'm not sure how this differs from the usual GNU/Linux
case.


> When configuring  --without-dbus  this fails, because GConf is used
> and it has:
>
> checking GCONF_CFLAGS... -DORBIT2=1 -I/sw/include/gconf/2
>   -I/sw/include/orbit-2.0 -I/sw/include/dbus-1.0
>   -I/sw/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/sw/include/glib-2.0
>   -I/sw/lib/glib-2.0/include
> checking GCONF_LIBS... -L/sw/lib -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lm -ldbus-1
>   -lpthread -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl
>   -liconv
>
> In the end it is reported:
>
>   Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
>   Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  no
>   Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 yes
>   Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              yes
>
> But then, when I look at the libraries used, libdbus *is* used. I can
> only get red of it completely when I also configure --without-gconf.

Message #9 received at 5253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>, 5253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 
	5253-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5253: 23.1.90;  --without-dbus fails
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:00:10 +0100

Peter Dyballa skrev:
> Hello!
> 
> When configuring  --without-dbus  this fails, because GConf is used and 
> it has:
> 

AFAIK, nothing "fails".  Emacs still runs doesn't it?  without-dbus does not 
mean "under no circumstances link with -ldbus", it means "do not compile in an 
elisp dbus interface into Emacs".

We can't be expected to keep track of every library requierd by libraries for 
every distribution thet Emacs uses and give configure switches to compile 
without them.  It is too much work to figure out if --without-xxx implies 
--without-yyy on OS ZZZ using PanPorts version 3.5.1.  If GConf requires dbus, 
we can't simply remove it, GConf wouldn't link then.  FWIW, dbus is not 
usually a requirement for GConf (i.e. normal GNU/LInux os), I guess 
Fink/MacPorts descided to make it so.

Some configure switches leads to a library not being linked, but those are the 
simple cases.

This is not a bug at all, it is expected behaviour.

	Jan D.

Message #12 received at 5253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 5253-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 5253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5253: 23.1.90;  --without-dbus fails
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:52:45 +0100

Am 03.01.2010 um 14:00 schrieb Jan Djärv:

> FWIW, dbus is not usually a requirement for GConf (i.e. normal GNU/ 
> LInux os), I guess Fink/MacPorts descided to make it so.


The configure parameters for building GConf2 used in Fink are:

	ConfigureParams: --mandir=%p/share/man --libexecdir=%p/lib/%n -- 
disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-static --enable- 
gtk-doc --enable-gtk --disable-defaults-service PKG_CONFIG_PATH="%p/ 
lib/fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

So there is no explicite dependency introduced... OK, I could patch  
the PC file or create a local GConf package without DBus...

--
Greetings

  Pete

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money  
in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
				– Evan Esar

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