From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [platform-testers] Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out! Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:58:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83y357s6l5.fsf@gnu.org> <838sx7rqpv.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="182968"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 15:00:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7Kj5-000lQ0-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:00:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7Kj4-0007S2-4T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7KiS-0007Rt-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:00:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7KiR-0003yQ-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:00:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39276 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7KiN-0003dp-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7KiI-000kRw-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:00:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:cArfADqB4OvsQgcIdzF3dmoCtzc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:234566 Archived-At: >> >> 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". > > I understood that, but AFAIK there's no other project which supports that. Then maybe we should be trailblazers ;-) !! Stefan