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* new image library "requirements"
@ 2007-06-17  0:07 Miles Bader
  2007-06-18  6:01 ` Jan Djärv
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 34+ messages in thread
From: Miles Bader @ 2007-06-17  0:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

I just tried compiling a new emacs, and the configure failed with:

   configure: error: The following required libraries was not found:
        libgif/libungif libtiff
   Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
   If you don't want to link with them give
        --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
   as options to configure

While there's a case to be made for "requiring" (without options) X
libraries or even jpeg /png, I think requiring these is kind of silly.

Tiff is fairly rarely used except in specialized applications.

The case with .gif is more vague, but it seems largely a legacy format,
and is getting more and more rare these days -- you see it on old web
sites, and people still use it for "animated" images (which emacs
doesn't support), but it seems kind of unusual to see it for the kind of
content which people might keep around.

At the least, I'd drop the "requirement" for tiff.

-miles
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2007-06-17  0:07 new image library "requirements" Miles Bader
2007-06-18  6:01 ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-18  6:09   ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-18  7:34     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18  8:18       ` martin rudalics
2007-06-18 15:37         ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-18 15:39           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-18 19:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19  5:54         ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-19  6:06           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19  7:28             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19  7:53               ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-19 22:27               ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20  1:08                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-19 22:26         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20  1:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-20 17:35             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20  3:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-20  5:38             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20  5:50             ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-20  7:30               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20  7:37                 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-20 22:17               ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-20 17:35             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 19:39               ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-21 17:32                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-19 10:41       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-19 11:14         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19 11:16         ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-19 12:09           ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-19 21:12             ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-20  5:43               ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-20 13:28               ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18  7:30   ` David Kastrup

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