Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Richard Stallman]

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  > In general, Emacs can only prevent GTK from handling certain events.  If
  > it handles an event that it must handle (in this case,
  > XI_HierarchyChange) incorrectly, and that causes GTK to later
  > dereference NULL, there is nothing that Emacs can do.  Just like what
  > happens when GTK calls _exit under our nose.

With so many messages on this topic, I can't see whether someone
already tried reporting these bugs to GTK developers and saying we find
them very painful.  Has that been tried?

Have we tried patching GTK to add workarounds -- for instance,
defining an "exit function" hook to call instead of `_exit'?
We could distribute such patches, and they might accept the patches.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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