Re: Tests, Emacs-25 and Conditional Features

[Stefan Monnier]

> That's one possibility, but it isn't the only one.  Some of the
> features in system-configuration-options are detected automatically,
> so the user might not always be aware that a feature she assumed she
> has failed to auto-detect and is disabled.

Well, we need some concrete data from which we can guess what the user
might assume.  `system-configuration-options' is one of them, but indeed
it doesn't cover all cases.

> Maybe a test that produced a report for which features are actually
> available and working would be a possible solution.

Not sure what you're thinking of.  But maybe we could stash the summary
we emit at the end of ./configure and use that additionally to
`system-configuration-options'.


        Stefan