Re: GTK patch - only for GTK >= version 2? (and hence GNOME 2)

[Jan D.]

onsdagen den 15 januari 2003 kl 03.57 skrev Alex Lancaster:

> It seems that the GTK patch by Jan only works with for GTK+ version 2
> (and hence GNOME 2) and later.  I was wondering whether this was by
> design or accident (I presuming that it is by design, because I
> noticed that the autoconf tests look for a version of GLIB and GTK >=
> 2.0.1, but I wanted to be sure).
>
> I have successfully built a version of Emacs CVS w/ GTK patch under
> Red Hat 8.0 (which ships with GTK+/GNOME 2 as standard), but was
> trying to build the same version under Slackware 8.1 which ships with
> GTK+ 1.2.10 and it fails (presumably due to the GTK+ version).

Yes, this is by design.  The main reason is that the event strategy used
for Emacs and GTK won't work with GTK 1.2 (or rather Glib 1.2).  Other
reasons are that a lot of stuff that are in 1.2 has been replaced with
new things in 2.0 (like moving all event-signals to glib) and the old 1.2
things are depreceated in 2.0.  So in order to be more "future proof",
I started with for 2.0.

Note that no Gnome stuff are used, so just compiling GTK 2.0 is enough
to get Emacs to compile.

        Jan D.