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bug#23144: shrinking windows with gtk 3.20
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23144: shrinking windows with gtk 3.20 |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:35:19 +0300 |
> Cc: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:01:56 -0400
>
> Yaakov Selkowitz has pointed out that the fix for this bug on the
> emacs-25 branch should have used the function gtk_check_version rather
> than the macro GTK_CHECK_VERSION. The function checks the version at
> runtime, while the macro checks the version at build time.
>
> The effect of using the macro is that the bug can suddenly show up after
> a gtk update, and a rebuild of emacs with the new gtk is required. See
>
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-03/msg00280.html
Thanks for letting us know.
The emacs-25 branch cannot accept such changes, and the problem
doesn't exist on master. So I guess there's nothing we should do
about this.
I wish someone we had some GTK expert on board to catch these issues
in due time...