Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, martin rudalics wrote:

>> > IIUC no one uses --with-x-toolkit=no
>> 
>> Not true :-( I use it to build emacs specifically for terminal use.

> For what specific purpose?  Here a --with-x-toolkit=no build with
> debugging symbols mounts up to 23.5 MB, a Motif build to 24.4 MB.  A
> --without-x build has 18.5 MB.  Even that nowadays does not justify the
> extra maintenance burden.

It will require X11 to be present on the system at compile time and at
run time. There are systems where that isn't a feasible requirement.