From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:54:00 +0200 Message-ID: <46776F78.9040007@swipnet.se> References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182232478 19070 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 05:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 07:54:37 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 1I0Wfh-0004tk-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:54:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Wfh-0000sL-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Wfd-0000s6-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Wfb-0000ru-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Wfb-0000rr-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0WfY-0003vH-7l; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 77F52384AC; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F39638140; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C587037E43; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:54:22 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) In-Reply-To: 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:73276 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii skrev: >> From: David Kastrup >> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:59 +0200 >> Cc: Miles Bader , >> Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Maybe it should make a human-understandable report of missing >> functionality at the very end of the configure run: >> >> ---- WARNING ---- >> The following functionalities will be missing in your compilation of >> Emacs because of missing development libraries (specify >> -without-FEATURE to omit warning about such a missing feature): >> >> jpeg: used for displaying jpeg image files >> tiff: used for displaying tiff image files >> xpm: used for displaying xpm image files and color icons >> alsa: used for playing sounds from within Emacs > > Either that (we already do something similar for X toolkits and such > likes), or display a warning at startup (or both). > > But failing the configure script is too draconian, IMHO. That was Richards call: > If we know enough to give a specific message with specific advice, > that is better than an error from ld. But it should be a fatal error, > not a mere warning. It should make the user fix things and try again. Jan D.