Re: --with-gtk as default?

[Jan Djärv]

David Kastrup skrev:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:20:03 +0100
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > >
> > > Cygwin is basically an X11 build?
> > Yes.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you can also build an Emacs as a w32 
application with cygwin?

> Thanks.  Of course you are right in that it does not exactly help that
> Cygwin Gtk+ appears to crash.
>
> I have no idea whether this should be considered a general
> showstopper.  Probably depends on how many people would consider the
> platform Cygwin/Gtk+ a "natural" choice.
>
> If it is not a showstopper, then Cygwin/Gtk+ should likely lead to a
> strong warning upon configuration, and not be the default for Cygwin.


I am all for having Gtk as the default.  As pointed out, Gnome is the 
preferred GNU desktop environment.  The cygwin issue may still be fixable, 
there was a suggestion on the cygwin mailing list that a different link order 
might solve this.  However, I have no time to try this until the weekend.  For 
now, I just added a note in etc/PROBLEMS.  If the link order doesn't work I 
will add some stuff to configure so cygwin + Gtk gives a warning.

        Jan D.