From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:59 +0200
Cc: Miles Bader <address@hidden>,
Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>, address@hidden
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.