From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:58:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20995.38193.299757.55244@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20999.62420.118305.428747@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83a9knr5px.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376315967 27386 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2013 13:59:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 12 15:59:29 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 1V8sef-0003uk-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:59:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8sef-0005p1-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8seK-0005Lv-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8seC-0004Sa-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:46049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8se4-000496-KS; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:58:52 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kLodwBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kLodwBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="21489835" Original-Received: from 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.243.106]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 12 Aug 2013 09:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9781663453; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:58:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83a9knr5px.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:41:14 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:162612 Archived-At: > The real solution to such problems is to probe for the availability of > the shared library at run time. Or even better, to rely on an FFI (so not only you check availability at run-time, but you don't even need to have the library at compile-time). Stefan