From: whynot@pozharski.name   
      
   with  Javier wrote:   
   > John Forkosh  wrote:   
      
   *SKIP*   
   >> So I naively guessed the problem's some kind of slackware   
   >> configuration issue. That did seem a bit odd, but so did everything   
   >> else I could think of -- a possible elisp issue only occurred to me   
   >> after googling mentioned it, which was after I'd already posted the   
   >> question here.   
   >   
   > I doubt that Pat does any kind of patching to emacs.  In my experience   
   > emacs compiles out of the box everywhere and needs no patching.   
      
   That's not correct (at time of posting) emacs.SlackBuild contains this   
   (twice):   
      
       90   
       91  zcat $CWD/d48bb4874bc6cd3e69c7a15fc3c91cc141025c51.patch.gz | patch   
   -p1 --verbose ||   
    exit 1   
       92   
      
   And another instance of "zczt | patch" a bit later.   
      
   > What Pat should do is to give the possiblility to use emacs-lucid with   
   > the lucid toolkit instead of GTK.  It has less bugs, and is more   
   > consistent through versions than GTK.   
      
   Consider breaking free:   
      
      117    --with-x \   
      118    --with-x-toolkit=${X_TOOLKIT:-gtk3} \   
      119    $PDUMPER \   
      
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