From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:12:18 +1200 Message-ID: <18040.18098.837216.477387@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <18039.47900.810437.642883@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <4677C76B.506@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182287579 21432 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 21:12:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 23:12:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0l0P-0004jl-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:12:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0l0P-00046I-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0l0K-000438-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0l0J-00041D-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0l0J-000415-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0l0H-0001x1-18; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (40.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.40]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3783D9A8E; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:12:37 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C3F5B8FBF6; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:12:19 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <4677C76B.506@swipnet.se> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.3 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73339 Archived-At: > > But presumably this isn't a one size fits all problem but depends on what > > the user intends to do with Emacs. If configure just informs the user of > > what functionality will be missing (rather than what libraries are > > missing), *he* can decide, not us, if that is a problem or not. > > He still can decide, just pass the relevant --without-xxx to configure. Yes but not without inconvenience. If he doesn't want images and hasn't got the headers for gif, tiff or png then configure presumably aborts three times until he finally uses: configure --without-gif --without-tiff --without-png and then he has to go through all of it again if later he wishes to configure with different options, e.g., CFLAGS=-g . -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob