From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [platform-testers] Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out!
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:20:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmulnhzks.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y357s6l5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:37:10 +0300")
>> Hmm... would there be a way to make it so configure accepts options like
>>
>> ./configure ... --with-xpm=ifavailable --with-jpeg=ifavailable ...
>>
>> so you can use a single script on all systems and it will use xpm
>> where available?
>
> AFAIR, that is how this worked before, and we changed that because it
> would cause builds without image libraries without noticing.
I know but what I'm proposing is to make it possible for the user to
explicitly say "yes, please do just that, even though it has proved
undesirable as a default behavior".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-22 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-21 16:25 [platform-testers] Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out! Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-03-21 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-22 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 12:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-03-22 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-25 17:50 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-22 3:36 ` Van L
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-03-21 22:35 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-03-22 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 12:54 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-03-22 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 12:25 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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