From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:43:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4678BE73.5080401@swipnet.se> References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <18039.47900.810437.642883@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <4677C76B.506@swipnet.se> <18040.18098.837216.477387@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182318227 348 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 05:43:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 07:43:46 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 1I0syo-0003fB-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:43:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0syn-0002WT-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0syi-0002V2-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0syh-0002Ue-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0syh-0002Ub-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0sye-0006yr-Qz; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 3413A37F38; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:42:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1908A37E77; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:42:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54A837E46; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:43:35 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) In-Reply-To: <18040.18098.837216.477387@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> 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:73382 Archived-At: 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.