[debbugs-tracker] bug#19507: closed (configure --with-ns fails on Fedora 21 in AppKit.h test)

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> configure --with-ns fails on Fedora 21 in AppKit.h test
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> Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:24:08 -0800
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> On Fedora 21 x86-64 I configured the current Emacs master (commit
> cde73794f61fec2a5a8676c2e36ec6634e72cdc5) using "./configure --with-ns",
> and this failed as follows:
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>   checking AppKit/AppKit.h usability... no
>   checking AppKit/AppKit.h presence... yes
>   configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h: present but cannot be compiled
>   configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h:     check for missing prerequisite 
> headers?
>   configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h: see the Autoconf documentation
>   configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be 
> Compiled"
>   configure: WARNING: AppKit/AppKit.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
>   configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>   configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
>   configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>   checking for AppKit/AppKit.h... no
>   configure: error: `--with-ns' was specified, but the include
>     files are missing or cannot be compiled.
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> Config.log says this (/usr/local/include is an empty directory, I'm running with 
> pretty much vanilla Fedora 21):
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>   configure:10522: checking AppKit/AppKit.h usability
>   configure:10522: gcc -std=gnu99 -c -g3 -O2 -x objective-c -I/usr/include 
> -I/usr/local/include -fobjc-exceptions    -x objective-c -I/usr/include 
> -I/usr/local/include conftest.c >&5
>   In file included from /usr/include/AppKit/NSPanel.h:34:0,
>                    from /usr/include/AppKit/NSColorPanel.h:39,
>                    from /usr/include/AppKit/AppKit.h:63,
>                    from conftest.c:107:
>   /usr/include/AppKit/NSWindow.h:876:1: error: cannot find protocol declaration 
> for 'NSWindowDelegate'
>    @interface NSObject (NSWindowDelegateAdditions) <NSWindowDelegate>
>    ^
>   configure:10522: $? = 1
>   configure: failed program was:
>   | /* confdefs.h */
>   | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU Emacs"
>   | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "emacs"
>   | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "25.0.50"
>   | ...
>   | #include <AppKit/AppKit.h>
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> /usr/include/AppKit/NSWindow.h says this:
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>   #ifdef GNUSTEP
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>   @protocol NSWindowDelegate <NSObject>
>   #ifdef __OBJC2__
>   @optional
>   #else
>   @end
>   @interface NSObject (NSWindowDelegate)
>   #endif
>   ...
>   #endif
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> Apparently GNUSTEP must be defined by the application?  If I configure
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>   ./configure --with-ns CFLAGS='-g3 -O2 -DGNUSTEP'
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> the above problem goes away, but the builder shouldn't have to
> configure CFLAGS by hand.
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> Have recent releases of GnuStep changed with respect to whether the application 
> must define the GNUSTEP macro?  Fedora 21 is using gnustep-gui-devel-0.24.0-1; 
> you can find out more about its status at:
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> https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/gnustep-gui-devel/
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: configure --with-ns fails on Fedora 21 in AppKit.h test Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 18:22:58 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 I ported that patch from Fedora 21 to Ubuntu 14.10, installed the attached revised patch, and am marking this as done.

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