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"--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no"

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62486: closed ("--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no")
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:58:04 +0000

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From: c.buhtz <at> posteo.jp
To: Bug gnu emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: "--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no"
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:48:12 +0000

This is about building Emacs29.

I did someting like this

    make configure="--with-x-toolkit=no"

You see the "no"? No matter of that the configure output tells me it is 
build with X support.

I tried

    make configure="--with-x-toolkit=no --without-x"

Again X11 support enabled.

Then this is the only thing that works.

    make configure="--without-x"

No X11 support.

Not sure what happend here. Something interfered.

It is not well described in the docs how this switches work. I looked 
into INSTALL, INSTALL.REPO and ./configure --help

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: 62486-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: c.buhtz <at> posteo.jp
Subject: Re: bug#62486: "--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no"
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:57:34 +0000

>
> make configure="--with-x-toolkit=no"
>
> You see the "no"? No matter of that the configure output tells me it is 
> build with X support.
>

That's a bit counter-intuitive, indeed, but building Emacs with 
"--with-x-toolkit=no" means that you ask a "no toolkit" built, in which 
Emacs does not depend on an external toolkit (GTK or Lucid) to draw its 
menu, toolbar and scrollbars.  That's different from a toolkit "without 
X".

This is not a bug.  Closing.

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