Re: Hang in make check

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  noloader@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:14:18 +0200
> 
> On Mär 30 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  It's actually worse: _because_ the getchar call hangs, Emacs
> > doesn't get to running the timer function at all.
> >
> > So I think the code needs to be modified, or maybe simply disabled
> > when system-configuration-features includes neither DBUS nor NOTIFY
> > nor THREADS.
> 
> Perhaps that getchar call should be removed altogether?

How will keyboard input be received then in those configurations?

This is a corner use case -- why would someone build Emacs with all
those features disabled, and then want to run the test suite?  I'm not
sure we should bother too much about that case.