OK... done in r12244. The only real disadvantage, I guess, is that we no longer have a handy variable for debugging purposes. However, it's not Gtk+ 3 compatible, so it was only of limited usefulness.
AV
On 25 March 2013 19:21, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
2013/3/25 Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...>:
Hi All,
Why do we explicitly check for the Gtk+ backend target in configure.ac? The resulting $gtk_backend_target variable isn't used anywhere except for deciding whether to link the -lX11 library or not.
In fact, this seems unnecessary too, because gtk+ reports whether it needs -lX11 via pkg-config so we should pick up the dependency automatically.
Our method of checking the backend target isn't supported by gtk+ 3 in any case, so can we get rid of the test?
Yes, it should be safe to remove - it's probably just another piece of leftover configure voodoo like the gcc > 3 check.
Regards, Krzysztof