From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <46776F78.9040007@swipnet.se> <86zm2wwgge.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182292323 4325 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 22:32:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 00:32:02 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 1I0mEx-0004df-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:31:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0mEw-0007WA-Lv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0mAP-00048d-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0mAN-00047t-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0mAN-00047n-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0mAN-0005Kd-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0mAN-00011U-0D; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:15 -0400 In-reply-to: <86zm2wwgge.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:28:49 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:73353 Archived-At: Maybe we could add something like an overall --without-panic option that will not abort unless nothing useful can be compiled? That would be more convenient for people than having to switch off every library manually if they know what they are doing. I don't object to this, but I think that having the executables for Xlib or the toolkit and failing to have the development packages will usually be an error rather than a choice.