Re: configure fails to find gtk and glib and exits with an empty error

[Jeremy Baxter]

On Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 7:47 AM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:16:04 +1300
> > Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > 
> > On Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM NZDT, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:52:33 +1300
> > > > From: "Jeremy Baxter" <jtbx@disroot.org>
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to compile Emacs with pgtk support from the current master
> > > > (4edb7713) but after I run the configure script with --with-x-toolkit=no
> > > > and --with-pgtk I get the following error:
> > > > 
> > > >     checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.23 glib-2.0 >= 2.37.5... no
> > > >     configure: error: 
> > > > 
> > > > I have gtk+3 version 3.24.38 and glib version 2.78.0 installed. I am
> > > > running the Void Linux distribution with glibc, and I generated the
> > > > configure script with `autoreconf -fi'. The full output log is attached,
> > > > would anyone be able to help here?
> > >
> > > Can you tell what is the purpose of using --with-x-toolkit=no in this
> > > case?
> > 
> > Passing no arguments causes an error telling me to supply --with-x-toolkit,
> > since I didn't have X11 libraries installed. Installing those libraries
> > makes the configure run normally so I can omit --with-x-toolkit.
> > 
> > I want to build with pgtk but passing --with-pgtk causes the same gtk/glib
> > error as before.
>
> Adding Po Lu in the hope that he understands what's going on here.
> You are basically saying that Emacs cannot be build for PGTK, is that
> so?

Yes, but I also cannot build if I supply --with-x-toolkit.