Re: merging of the xwidget branch to master

[Jonas Bernoulli]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:55:22 +0100
>> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>> 
>> address@hidden writes:
>> 
>> > ./configure --with-xwidgets  --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
>> 
>> What additinal packages do I have to install?  I am on Debian and the
>> only package I have installed specifically for this is libwebkitgtk-dev.
>> After doing that I still get:
>> 
>>   What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
>>   What toolkit should Emacs use?                          GTK3
>>   ...
>>   Does Emacs support Xwidgets?                            no
>>        Does xwidgets support webkit(requires gtk3)?       no
>>        Does xwidgets support gobject introspection?       no
>
> As another comment on the configure script in this area, I would
> suggest a prominent error message if xwidgets were requested, but the
> configure script decided not to turn on this option.  Currently, it
> does that silently (except for the above indication, which can easily
> get lost among the others), which IMO is bad UI.  If the user asked
> for xwidgets, but we cannot give it, we should complain loudly.

I had similar issues with other options, e.g.  `--with-imagemagick'
did not work because the installed version is to old (Debian lagging
behind), but I also got no warning except for the "no" which quickly
scrolled by.