bug#17435: RHBA-2014:0303-1 (Red Hat bug fix) breaks compilation of Emacs

[David Crick]

Apologies for the dupe.

Thanks for the info.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> David Crick wrote:
>
>> RHBA-2014:0303-1:
>>
>> The previous rebase to GLib 2.26 added the GSettings API, but without the
>> gsettings-desktop-schemas package. As a consequence, some programs
>> (such as OpenJDK or VMWare) attempted to use GSettings, but since
>> gsettings-desktop-schemas was absent, these programs terminated unexpectedly.
>> This update removes GSettings from glib2, and the crashes now no longer 
>> occur.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately this now breaks compilation of emacs from stock source
>> (emacs-24.3):
>
> This is a duplicate of http://debbugs.gnu.org/17118 .
>
> It's already fixed in Emacs for the upcoming 24.4 release.
> Or you can simply work around it by using
>     configure --without-gsettings
>
> (I wonder if anyone actually reported this to Red Hat, who it seems to
> me are responsible.)