Re: new image library "requirements"

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Nick Roberts skrev:
>  > > But presumably this isn't a one size fits all problem but depends on what
>  > > the user intends to do with Emacs.  If configure just informs the user of
>  > > what functionality will be missing (rather than what libraries are
>  > > missing), *he* can decide, not us, if that is a problem or not.
>  > 
>  > He still can decide, just pass the relevant --without-xxx to configure.
> 
> Yes but not without inconvenience.  If he doesn't want images and hasn't got
> the headers for gif, tiff or png then configure presumably aborts three
> times until he finally uses:
> 
> configure --without-gif --without-tiff --without-png
> 
> and then he has to go through all of it again if later he wishes to configure
> with different options, e.g., CFLAGS=-g .
> 

No, it aborts once and spells out the options to use so they can be copy and 
pasted.

	Jan D.