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Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4 |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:30:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman skrev:
>> > If some image libraries that ought to be present for a proper build of
>> > Emacs are missing, is it really good for Emacs to compile without
>> > those features? Or would it be better to get error messages
>> > and tell the user to install those development packages?
>> >
>>
>> Another way to solve these problems would be to use ppm files for the
>> color icons, since ppm support is built in to Emacs.
>>
>> 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 have machines where no libpng or lib(un)gif are installed. But I
> don't need that functionallity in Emacs. So why should Emacs reuire
> those libraries? libXpm is another matter, it is needed to see color
> icons.
png is the default graphics format for preview-latex
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html>. It is
not uncommon for users to report problems with selfcompiled Emacs
variants.
I don't mind being able to specify --without-libpng and/or
--without-libgif, but the default behavior makes it somewhat too easy
to overlook that one is not generating a fully-capable Emacs for a
given platform.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, (continued)
Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/11
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/11
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Jason Rumney, 2007/06/11
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/13
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/13
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/13
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, David Kastrup, 2007/06/13
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/13
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Glenn Morris, 2007/06/13
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/14
- Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Glenn Morris, 2007/06/14
Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/14
Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Glenn Morris, 2007/06/14
Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, David Kastrup, 2007/06/14
Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4, Jan Djärv, 2007/06/15