From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 11:09:31 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.20.1805311052290.27004@scrappy.simplesystems.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8Xs0Yjz1nc3K_BceXavJmQMUfSczMmKHta5vAAOqACqOA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 31 May 2018, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:35 PM Bob Friesenhahn
> <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>
>> Developers should be cognizant of the packages they are requiring to
>> be used.
>
> It’s not so easy. A library can be packaged under one name in Debian
> and a slightly different name in Red Hat, or distributed as one vs.
> multiple packages, or carried by one distribution but not the other.
> So, the error message that lists a missing library or header is pretty
> much the best you can get without delving into those differences.
The task of maintaining a configure script is definitely not easy.
The benefits of making the configure script as user-friendly as
possible is that then more users are using the latest version rather
than a stale version provided by their operating system distribution.
In this case the configure.ac developer explicitly entered a
pkg-config package name (including its major version) and so it was a
developer decision to produce a specific pkg-config package name but
used an indistinct generic meaningless name ("WEBKIT") in configure
output that the user sees, as well as the terminal error message.
The project is able to maintain 1.1 million lines of lisp code and
293k lines of ANSI C code which are presumably mostly correct, so it
should be possible to suitably maintain the 5k lines of configure.ac
code as so that ordinary end users are able to compile emacs as well.
Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-31 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-28 14:14 [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Nicolas Petton
2018-05-28 14:38 ` Tino Calancha
2018-05-30 12:47 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2018-05-30 21:02 ` Phillip Lord
2018-05-30 23:20 ` Tak Kunihiro
[not found] ` <d128f41704af0d075e5a8c04b7d8f9e8.squirrel@cloud103.planethippo.com>
2018-06-01 7:29 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-05-30 21:51 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2018-05-31 8:40 ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-31 9:11 ` joakim
2018-05-31 13:07 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2018-05-31 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 15:34 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2018-05-31 15:45 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-31 16:09 ` Bob Friesenhahn [this message]
2018-05-31 15:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-01 6:55 ` glitchy gotcha message (Was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released) Van L
2018-05-31 16:04 ` [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01 2:58 ` Python stack with vc and hg on 26.1 (was [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released) Mike Kupfer
2018-06-06 14:48 ` [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Joshua Branson
2018-06-01 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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