bug#4186: 23.0.91; Can not compile CVS Emacs on Debian old-stable (dbus problem)

[Matthieu Moy]

Hi,

Short version: whether I enable dbus or not, newest Emacs fails to
compile on my system.

Longer version:
With the same configuration I used to succeed in compiling Emacs on my
machine, I now get this error at link time:

dbusbind.o: In function `xd_remove_watch':
/home/moy/local/usr/src/emacs/src/dbusbind.c:766: undefined reference to 
`dbus_watch_get_unix_fd'
/home/moy/local/usr/src/emacs/src/dbusbind.c:768: undefined reference to 
`dbus_watch_get_socket'
dbusbind.o: In function `xd_add_watch':
/home/moy/local/usr/src/emacs/src/dbusbind.c:741: undefined reference to 
`dbus_watch_get_unix_fd'
/home/moy/local/usr/src/emacs/src/dbusbind.c:743: undefined reference to 
`dbus_watch_get_socket'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Fine, I thought, my dbus is too old, I don't need it, I'll disable it.
But compiling with --without-dbus, it doesn't work either:

Wrote /net/bauges/local/moy/usr/src/emacs.git/lisp/net/tramp-ftp.elc
Compiling /net/bauges/local/moy/usr/src/emacs.git/lisp/net/tramp-gvfs.el
Loading tramp...

In toplevel form:
../../lisp/net/tramp-gvfs.el:101:1:Error: Symbol's function definition is void: 
dbus-init-bus
make[2]: *** [...] Error 1

Reproducible with a fresh checkout.

Ideally, Emacs should be tought not to use inexisting functions in
libdbus, but at least, fixing the build with --without-dbus should be
done.

Thanks in advance,

$ uname -a
Linux bauges 2.6.29.3-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 14 12:01:17 CEST 2009 i686 
GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/debian_version 
4.0

(rest of message mostly irrelevant, since I'm posting from another
Emacs instance)

In GNU Emacs 23.0.91.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2009-03-17 on bauges
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/moy/local/usr/''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Term

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  global-whitespace-mode: t
  global-hl-line-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: (only)

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Matthieu