emacs +x11

[Ken Preslan]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:06:34PM -0800, Dan Ports wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:46:55PM -0600, Ken Preslan wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my installation of the "emacs +x11" port and I'm
> > getting an error.  I did a "port uninstall emacs ; port clean emacs" and
> > I still get the error.
> 
> This was just reported as bug #28083:
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/28083
> 
> I haven't figured out yet why the right compiler flags aren't being
> used, but as a workaround I do know that the +gtk variant works.
> (Lately I've been contemplating replacing +x11 with +gtk, or making
> +gtk the default, anyway.)

Thanks for the reply!  A fix for the +x11/pkgconfig problem would be
muchly appreciated.

I'll leave it up to you to decide what default would best serve your users,
but I'd like to lobby for leaving the simpler +x11 variant as an option.
The +gtk variant pulls in a lot of other ports I wouldn't need
otherwise.  The librsvg dependency also pulls in a lot of stuff I
wouldn't have thought necessary for emacs.  Simpler is better for me, and
I don't need/want more bells and whistles.  But that's just my vote.

Thanks for your hard work.

-- 
Ken Preslan <ken at preslan.org>