From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:28:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20999.62420.118305.428747@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20995.38193.299757.55244@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376252914 5502 80.91.229.3 (11 Aug 2013 20:28:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 11 22:28:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V8cFf-0003KQ-3E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:28:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37142 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8cFe-0005zR-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8cFU-0005z6-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8cFM-0001qM-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:46875) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8cFM-0001ja-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id r7BKS4TL020403; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:28:04 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r7BKS44Q005599; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:28:04 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r7BKS4xE005597; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:28:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162583 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> I hope there will be an explicit configure option to enable/disable >> zlib support, too? > Is there a reason to have such an option? If -lz is present, I can't > really see why anybody would want Emacs to be built without it... Emacs may be built one one host where the shared library is present, and the resulting binary then distributed to another host where it isn't. It's a common scenario with Gentoo's binary packages, and without a configure option to suppress autodetection of the library, there's no way to do proper tracking of dependencies. Ulrich