Re: Add emacs build with LUCID X toolkit ?

[Markus Hoenicka <markus dot hoenicka at mhoenicka dot de>]

At 2018-03-05 15:03, Ken Brown was heard to say:
> On 3/5/2018 8:21 AM, Alejandro Benitez wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I often painstakingly work on my build of emacs and never look back, 
> > praying to never come back, but then I get some annoyances such as 
> > vfork issues I can't fix. I will go further on this in a different 
> > post.
>
> vfork issues almost always indicate a need to do a full rebase.  See
>
>   https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures .
>
> Or switch from 32-bit Cygwin to 64-bit Cygwin, where such problems are
> extremely rare.
>
> > Maybe add a new emacs-lucid package ?
>
> Cygwin's emacs uses GTK+ because that's the default for an emacs build
> on all unix-like platforms.  But I'll think about adding an
> emacs-lucid package for the next emacs release.  It would be good to
> know how much demand there is for this.  Are there other emacs-X11
> users who would prefer the Lucid toolkit?

As an avid emacs user I have no desire to switch to emacs-lucid. If the 
extra work to provide both packages is limited, it would not hurt to 
have both packages though.

just my 2 cc
Markus

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