Re: svg library ideas

[Po Lu]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > >   > Newer versions of librsvg are not suitable for the Android port, 
> because
>   > >   > Android forces all dependencies to be built while building Emacs 
> itself
>
>   > Android doesn't provide any method for installing shared libraries
>   > system-wide.
>
> Could there be a way of installing a shared library which is not
> system-wide, but simply for the sake of building one program?

Yes, but in the end the shared library will still have to end up inside
the Emacs application package (much like how the MS-Windows installer
binaries on ftp.gnu.org contain all of Emacs's dependencies), and it
will still have to be built with the same compiler options as Emacs is.