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: new image library "requirements" Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:26:03 +0300 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182194776 11611 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2007 19:26:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 21:26:14 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 1I0Mrd-0003pA-MZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:26:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0Mrc-00082F-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0MrZ-00082A-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0MrY-00081w-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0MrY-00081t-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0MrV-0007RK-Kz; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-206-181.inter.net.il [80.230.206.181]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id ICS17975 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:26:02 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:59 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:73247 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:59 +0200 > Cc: Miles Bader , > Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Maybe it should make a human-understandable report of missing > functionality at the very end of the configure run: > > ---- 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 Either that (we already do something similar for X toolkits and such likes), or display a warning at startup (or both). But failing the configure script is too draconian, IMHO.