emacs-pgtk fails to build

[drishal]

emacs-pgtk fails with the following

       last 25 log lines:
       >        one display, but if you use more than one and close one of them
       >        Emacs may crash.
       >        See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221
       > checking for malloc_trim... yes
       > checking for dbus-1 >= 1.0... yes
       > checking for dbus_watch_get_unix_fd... yes
       > checking for dbus_type_is_valid... yes
       > checking for dbus_validate_bus_name... yes
       > checking for dbus_validate_path... yes
       > checking for dbus_validate_interface... yes
       > checking for dbus_validate_member... yes
       > checking for dbus_message_set_allow_interactive_authorization... yes
       > checking for gio-2.0 >= 2.26... yes
       > checking whether GSettings is in gio... yes
       > checking for gobject-2.0 >= 2.0... yes
       > checking for lgetfilecon in -lselinux... yes
       > checking for gnutls >= 2.12.2... yes
       > checking for libsystemd >= 222... yes
       > checking for tree-sitter >= 0.20.2... yes
       > checking for sys/inotify.h... yes
       > checking for inotify_init... yes
       > checking for inotify_init1... yes
       > checking for webkit2gtk-4.1 >= 2.12 webkit2gtk-4.1 < 2.41.92... no
       > checking for webkit2gtk-4.0 >= 2.12 webkit2gtk-4.0 < 2.41.92... no
       > configure: error: xwidgets requested but WebKitGTK+ or WebKit framework not found.

the code which I use to build packages:

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      ((emacsPackagesFor emacs-pgtk).emacsWithPackages (
     epkgs: with epkgs; [
       treesit-grammars.with-all-grammars
       vterm

     ]
   ))
  ]

[vikanezrimaya]

Temporary workaround: emacs-pgtk.override { withXwidgets = false; }.

[vikanezrimaya]

Possibly related to #454

[jian-lin]

#456 works around this issue. Please update emacs-overlay and this issue should disappear.

[lheckemann]

Can confirm that updating emacs-overlay to integrate the merge of #456 fixed the build for me, so I'd suggest closing :)

[jian-lin]

This issue may be (ab)used to track a proper fix (NixOS/nixpkgs#365784 may be one). However, I am also fine with closing it.

[drishal]

I don't mind keeping this issue open as well if a proper fix has not yet been found

Edit: also as of now the current #456 works

[drishal]

However I have a small question, what's this WebKitGTK/framework even used for ? 🤔

[johnhamelink]

@drishal you can use it to render a web page in a window within a GUI Emacs session