Re: problems with easy-menu-add on --without-x emacs

[Richard Stallman]

    > I notice several cases where things fail on an emacs compiled without X
    > support, because they call `easy-menu-add', and it calls `x-popup-menu'
    > which isn't defined when X support is disabled.  I don't recall such
    > failures the last time I tried to make a no-X emacs, so maybe something
    > has changed recently.

    I've just removed the unnecessary call to x-popup-menu yesterday, as
    a matter of fact, so things should work again.

The call to x-popup-menu was intended to precompute info cached in the
menu, so that the menu would display more quickly.

Why do you think it was unnecessary?