Re: Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs?

[Jan Djärv]

Chong Yidong skrev:
> Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Leo skrev:
> > > * Jan Djärv (2006-12-19 21:36 +0100) said:
> > >   ^^^^^^^^^
> > > > It does indeed look like -lXt is needed to detect X11.  This is all
> > > > in autoconfig, the macro AC_PATH_X.  I guess we could file a bug
> > > > report on autoconfig.  -lXt is not needed for Gtk+.
> > > Thank you for looking into this :-)
> > I looked at the sources for autoconf, and this bug has been fixed in
> > autoconf 2.61:
> >
> > Revision 1.22  - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
> > Sat Aug 12 18:33:46 2006 UTC (4 months, 1 week ago) by eggert
> > Branch: MAIN
> > CVS Tags: AUTOCONF-2_60a
> > Changes since 1.21: +1 -1 lines
> > Diff to previous 1.21
> >
> > * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Replace another
> > check for libXt by a check for libX11.
> >
> > Unfortunately I used 2.60 when I generated configure.
>
> I regenerate configure each time I roll a pretest tarball, using
> autoconf 2.59.  As I understand, this is the "safe" version of
> autoconf we've been using all through the release process.

I guess we just have to document this in PROBLEMS then.  BTW, what is unsafe 
with 2.60 or 2.61?  Did someone have problems with those?

        Jan D.