From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:38:52 +0200 Message-ID: <85odjbgp77.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182317945 32171 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 05:39:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 07:39:04 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 1I0suF-00030v-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:39:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0suF-0001pU-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0suB-0001pO-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0su9-0001pC-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0su9-0001p9-0p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0su6-0006Ku-VV; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.31]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85CD81E4F53; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66675100C0; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-062-106.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.62.106]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B5919B322; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BD5F21D0340C; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:38:52 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 06\:18\:56 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/3475/Wed Jun 20 06:45:09 2007 on mail-in-01.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean 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:73381 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Richard Stallman >> CC: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:00 -0400 >> >> An error message is the right thing when a crucial feature >> that ought to work would fail due to missing headers. > > How is the case of image libraries different from the X headers and > libraries? Currently, if X headers and/or libraries were not found > by the configure script, we just print this in the summary at the end > of configure, and continue as if --without-x was specified. Are you > saying that X support is less crucial than image support? It goes without saying that the same holds for X, and in fact there have been proposals for what check to use here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum