bug#12332: 24.2.50; forgetting --without-gconf leads to crash at launch

[Jan D.]

Peter Dyballa skrev 2012-09-02 19:50:
> Am 02.09.2012 um 13:17 schrieb Jan Djärv:
>
> > GConf uses Gobject (where g_type_init is), but does not list it as a link time 
> > dependency, it apparently is linked in at runtime.  Thus, configure for Emacs 
> > does not find g_type_init and does not call it.
>
> I simply thought: Why is configure checking something really not related with 
> Athena?

I don't understand the question.  You can link in for example dbus or 
libxml, both which doesn't have anything to do with Athena.  But in both 
cases we must check for them.
The text font for Emacs is taken from GConf if available (but Xsettings 
is preferred), so we must check for that.  Not all optional libraries in 
Emacs are related to the toolkit used.

        Jan D.