Re: Should libXt-devel be required to build Emacs?

[Chong Yidong]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo skrev:
>> * Jan Djärv (2006-12-19 21:36 +0100) said:
>>   ^^^^^^^^^
>>> It does indeed look like -lXt is needed to detect X11.  This is all
>>> in autoconfig, the macro AC_PATH_X.  I guess we could file a bug
>>> report on autoconfig.  -lXt is not needed for Gtk+.
>>
>> Thank you for looking into this :-)
>
> I looked at the sources for autoconf, and this bug has been fixed in
> autoconf 2.61:
>
> Revision 1.22  - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
> Sat Aug 12 18:33:46 2006 UTC (4 months, 1 week ago) by eggert
> Branch: MAIN
> CVS Tags: AUTOCONF-2_60a
> Changes since 1.21: +1 -1 lines
> Diff to previous 1.21
>
> * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Replace another
> check for libXt by a check for libX11.
>
> Unfortunately I used 2.60 when I generated configure.

I regenerate configure each time I roll a pretest tarball, using
autoconf 2.59.  As I understand, this is the "safe" version of
autoconf we've been using all through the release process.