From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:37:58 +0200 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> <46763FE1.8000906@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182181074 21963 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2007 15:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Nick Roberts , Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 17:37:51 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 1I0JIc-0005ZC-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:37:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0JIc-0007mK-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0JIY-0007m0-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0JIW-0007lf-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0JIW-0007lc-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.km1136.keymachine.de ([62.141.58.119] helo=km1136.keymachine.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0JIT-00024B-6M; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.de (xdsle017.osnanet.de [212.95.104.17]) (authenticated bits=0) by km1136.keymachine.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l5IFbWEP015553; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:37:32 +0200 Original-Received: from wilde by kenny.sha-bang.de with local (Kenny MUA v.0409034.42) ID 1I0JIk-00064i-Bo; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:37:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <46763FE1.8000906@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 10\:18\:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) 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:73239 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: >> Maybe it should make a human-understandable report of missing >> functionality at the very end of the configure run: > > I support that. +1 >> ---- WARNING ---- >> The following functionalities will be missing in your compilation of >> Emacs because of missing development libraries (specify >> -without-FEATURE to omit warning about such a missing feature): >> >> jpeg: used for displaying jpeg image files >> tiff: used for displaying tiff image files >> xpm: used for displaying xpm image files and color icons >> alsa: used for playing sounds from within Emacs > > Including a short description of the consequences when such a > functionality is missing. Please don't make this unnecessary verbose. I think "The following functionalities will be missing ... displaying jpeg image files" perfectly clear. People building complex software like emacs from source should be able to understand this messages and its consequences. sascha -- Sascha Wilde "The primary difference [...] is that the Java program will reliably and obviously crash, whereas the C program will do something obscure." -- Java Language Tutorial