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: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:23:11 +0300 Message-ID: References: <701fce30706102144k17151433rc78902a60e136884@mail.gmail.com> <466CE537.4030906@swipnet.se> <466DC104.4000701@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181755411 30809 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2007 17:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: silverburgh.meryl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 19:23:29 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 1HyWZ2-0000XV-N5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:23:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyWZ2-0008PT-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyWYx-0008Oq-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyWYt-0008Oe-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyWYt-0008Ob-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:23:15 -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 1HyWYs-0004ei-1U; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:23:14 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-162-236.inter.net.il [84.228.162.236]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IBQ53497 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:23:11 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:06:55 -0400) 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:72783 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:06:55 -0400 > Cc: silverburgh.meryl@gmail.com, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > The problem I am talking about is not just about icons. > Emacs ought to support various graphics formats, > if their libraries are installed. If they are not installed, > why should Emacs build without complaint and then lack the > functionality? I think it's a mistake. I'm not sure I understand what scenario you were talking about. The origin of this thread was about a Windows build, where it is not uncommon for the binaries to be built on one system, and then run on many others (we provide precompiled Windows binaries on ftp.gnu.org). In this scenario, while the machine where Emacs was built would normally have all the image libraries (since Emacs developers generally have them installed), we cannot assume anything about the end-user machine. In any case, the Windows configure script clearly says whether it did or did not find each one of the image support libraries, although those messages might not stand out enough among other configure-time messages.