bug#62486: closed ("--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no")

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Your message dated Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:57:34 +0000
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and subject line Re: bug#62486: "--without-x" is ignored when 
"--with-x-toolkit=no"
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #62486,
regarding "--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no"
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> "--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no"
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> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:48:12 +0000
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> This is about building Emacs29.
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> I did someting like this
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>     make configure="--with-x-toolkit=no"
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> You see the "no"? No matter of that the configure output tells me it is 
> build with X support.
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> I tried
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>     make configure="--with-x-toolkit=no --without-x"
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> Again X11 support enabled.
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> Then this is the only thing that works.
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>     make configure="--without-x"
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> No X11 support.
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> Not sure what happend here. Something interfered.
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> It is not well described in the docs how this switches work. I looked 
> into INSTALL, INSTALL.REPO and ./configure --help
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> Re: bug#62486: "--without-x" is ignored when "--with-x-toolkit=no"
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> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:57:34 +0000
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> > make configure="--with-x-toolkit=no"
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> > You see the "no"? No matter of that the configure output tells me it is 
> > build with X support.
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> That's a bit counter-intuitive, indeed, but building Emacs with 
> "--with-x-toolkit=no" means that you ask a "no toolkit" built, in which 
> Emacs does not depend on an external toolkit (GTK or Lucid) to draw its 
> menu, toolbar and scrollbars.  That's different from a toolkit "without 
> X".
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> This is not a bug.  Closing.
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