From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:41:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83a9knr5px.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20995.38193.299757.55244@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20999.62420.118305.428747@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376275277 12589 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2013 02:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 02:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 12 04:41:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V8i4K-0008MA-Kn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:41:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8i4K-0001KT-0a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8i4C-0001KJ-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8i41-0000WW-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:47897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8i41-0000WK-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:40:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MRE00J00CMZQH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:40:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MRE00JV5CS2J250@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:40:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20999.62420.118305.428747@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162600 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:28:04 +0200 > From: Ulrich Mueller > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >>>>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > > >> I hope there will be an explicit configure option to enable/disable > >> zlib support, too? > > > Is there a reason to have such an option? If -lz is present, I can't > > really see why anybody would want Emacs to be built without it... > > Emacs may be built one one host where the shared library is present, > and the resulting binary then distributed to another host where it > isn't. The real solution to such problems is to probe for the availability of the shared library at run time.