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Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?


From: Colin Baxter
Subject: Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:39:09 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

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

    > For what specific purpose?

Running in an x-term, usually as part of tmux. My x-toolkit build
loads a third faster than my gtk build and I really don't need pretty
menus.

    > 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.

Ok, I'm sorry about that. I don't want to overburden the developers. I
was replying to a statement that nobody built a "no x-toolkit" emacs.

Best wishes,




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