Re: new image library "requirements"

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:00 -0400
>> 
>> An error message is the right thing when a crucial feature
>> that ought to work would fail due to missing headers.
>
> How is the case of image libraries different from the X headers and
> libraries?  Currently, if X headers and/or libraries were not found
> by the configure script, we just print this in the summary at the end
> of configure, and continue as if --without-x was specified.  Are you
> saying that X support is less crucial than image support?

It goes without saying that the same holds for X, and in fact there
have been proposals for what check to use here.

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