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Re: GTK patches part 1
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Jan D. |
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Re: GTK patches part 1 |
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Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:21:21 +0100 (MET) |
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:44:03PM +0100, Jan D. wrote:
> > I don't understand why HAVE_GTK needs to be in config.in. Can you
> > explain?
>
> Because autoconf will never insert a define itself (into config.h), it needs
> a template to modify, which in the case of emacs is src/config.in. Surely
> you needed to do this yourself, to compile anything!
I did edit config.in manually and then promptly forgot about it.
I didn't realize it was a generated file.
> > > (4) It looks like the user has to give the `--with-gtk' option to
> > > configure to enable GTK. I think using `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
> > > would be more correct, at least from a user's perspective.
> >
> > I just selected what other GTK programs seems to use. In theory GTK
> > can run on other platforms than X (not this port though), But I can switch
> > (or have both?) if thats desired.
>
> Well, if it's some sort of standard, then I suppose you could support both.
>
> --with-x-toolkit is better though, because it makes explicit the fact that
> GTK and the other supported toolkits are mutually exclusive. Perhaps the
> programs you're thinking of can only use one GUI toolkit, which is enabled
> using --with-gtk?
It may be so. I can hardly call it standard, the only program I remember
right now is xscreensaver. I'll change to --with-x-toolkit=gtk.
Jan D.
- GTK patches part 1, Jan D., 2002/12/08
- Re: GTK patches part 1, Miles Bader, 2002/12/09
- Re: GTK patches part 1, Jan D., 2002/12/09
- Re: GTK patches part 1, Miles Bader, 2002/12/09
- Re: GTK patches part 1, Alan Shutko, 2002/12/09
- Re: GTK patches part 1, Jan D., 2002/12/09
- Re: GTK patches part 1, Miles Bader, 2002/12/09
- Re: GTK patches part 1, Richard Stallman, 2002/12/10
- Re: GTK patches part 1,
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