From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stéphane Maniaci" <stephane.maniaci@gmail.com>
Cc: 39953@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39953: 27.0.50; [PATCH] explicitly fail if Emacs was configured with but cannot compile native JSON support
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:49:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgilpjpl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKtFQoAqdF+o19Pq2bMi_JWkgM4ASc0aYY4qiF==c2RMVKBWUw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stéphane Maniaci on Fri, 6 Mar 2020 12:13:17 +0000)
> From: Stéphane Maniaci <stephane.maniaci@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 12:13:17 +0000
>
> This patch explicitly fails ./configure if `--with-json' is passed but
> cannot be fulfilled. Which means users without the Jansson headers
> won't be able to compile Emacs unless explicitly disabling it with
> `--without-json'; I don't know if that is too extreme, maybe
> AC_MSG_WARN would be more appropriate, but as long as it's notified in
> some way to the user I'm happy.
I think such handling of optional libraries is generally considered as
annoyance, so we only do that for some specific libraries.
Let's see what others think about this proposal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-06 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 12:13 bug#39953: 27.0.50; [PATCH] explicitly fail if Emacs was configured with but cannot compile native JSON support Stéphane Maniaci
2020-03-06 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-10 2:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-11 13:47 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-25 14:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-08 13:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-14 17:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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