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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `exec shield' test in configure too strict?
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:56:31 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buovfdocma8.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4163A3A8.1030804@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:50:00 +0200")

"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>>>I.e. just transform the current error into a warning.
>> 
>> I'd suggest this as the short-term fix.  It can use appropriately big
>> letters or whitespace or whatever, to be noticeable.
>
> I've used some withespace and some '***' to make it stand out.  But it
> still flashes by very fast on a reasonable new machine, so unless you
> are looking at the configure output (I usually don't) you probably
> will miss it.

How about outputting it again/instead at the end of the configure output
(after it prints the summary of the configuration); then it should be
just before the user's prompt.

-Miles
-- 
"Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture
and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure,
and demoralizing.  On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the
future of the world depends." -Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-04  5:53 `exec shield' test in configure too strict? Miles Bader
2004-10-04 15:04 ` Jan D.
2004-10-04 21:20   ` Miles Bader
2004-10-04 21:37     ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 20:40     ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 21:44       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-05 22:11         ` Jan D.
2004-10-06  0:18           ` Stefan
2004-10-06  1:34             ` Miles Bader
2004-10-06  7:50               ` Jan D.
2004-10-06  7:56                 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-10-06 11:31                   ` Jan D.
2004-10-06  7:48             ` Jan D.
2004-10-06 12:58               ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-06 11:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-06 11:38         ` Jan D.
2004-10-07 15:44           ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-07 16:44         ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-07 18:16           ` Jan D.
2004-10-09  1:25             ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-11 10:30               ` Jan D.
2004-10-12  8:56                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-20 20:33                   ` Jan D.
2004-10-21 13:57                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-22 21:02                     ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-25 19:05                       ` Jan D.
2004-10-26 20:24                         ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-27 10:48                         ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-27 12:17                           ` Jan D.
2004-11-06 17:00                     ` other unexec problems Camm Maguire
2004-11-09  7:58                       ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 18:04 ` `exec shield' test in configure too strict? Richard Stallman

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