From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:57:35 +0200 Message-ID: <466D8D0F.2090706@swipnet.se> References: <701fce30706102144k17151433rc78902a60e136884@mail.gmail.com> <466CE537.4030906@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181584711 17141 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2007 17:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: silverburgh.meryl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 19:58:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hxo9s-0007hW-H8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:58:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxo9s-0002yu-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxo9p-0002ye-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:58:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxo9o-0002yR-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:58:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxo9o-0002yO-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:58:24 -0400 Original-Received: from av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.183]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hxo9m-0007yF-NA; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D868838247; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C9837F89; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E7637E46; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:58:21 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72632 Archived-At: Richard Stallman skrev: > You are probably missing some development packages for image libraries. What > does the summary configure prints out say? > > This doesn't seem right to me. > > If some image libraries that ought to be present for a proper build of > Emacs are missing, is it really good for Emacs to compile without > those features? Or would it be better to get error messages > and tell the user to install those development packages? > It would require us to check for the run time shared library, and that would fail anyway if the user is crosscompiling. Not to mention we don't know what version to check for. But if libXpm is not found, I guess we could print out a warning saying that icons and images will be in black and white and installation of libxpm-dev(el) or similar would fix this. Jan D.