Re: emacs missing module support

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2024-02-29 at 22:35 GMT, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 02:13:05PM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > I don't use emacs, but I have users saying they are unable to use extensions
> > such as vterm because our emacs packages are built without module support.
> >
> > I've tested adding "CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-modules" and it works fine, but
> > I'm curious to hear from emacs users why this hasn't been added already.
>
> I guess because on NetBSD, it's not missing. When I compile emacs29 or
> wip/emacs-git, I see
>
>  Does Emacs have dynamic modules support?                yes
>
> So if that doesn't happen on Illumos, I'd try to find out why the
> defaults are different there.

This is emacs29-nox11 on macOS.

It looks like the problem is that the emacs -nox11 versions are given 
--without-all, which disables everything including module support.  I 
expect this will be the same for you on NetBSD too, at least if I'm 
reading configure correctly.

> Feel free to explicitly enable it though if it helps!

I assume it's ok to add this back in explicitly to the -nox11 versions?

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