Re: Merging feature/android

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: arsen@aarsen.me,  eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:12:35 +0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > But we don't want to, and we have decided long ago to use this
>> > mechanism.
>> 
>> The problem is that, as we are using it now, that mechanism does nothing
>> different from the more portable equivalents.  It will only handle C++
>> exceptions if Emacs is built with -fexceptions, and Emacs is not.
>> 
>> > Once again, let's please make this work like configure does with image
>> > libraries, i.e. error out by default if modules aren't supported, and
>> > suggest using ifavailable.  This will solve the problem cleanly and in
>> > a way that cannot be missed by chance.
>> 
>> How about only on GNU/Linux systems, and maybe Mac OS and Windows?
>
> I don't understand what you propose, in practical terms.

Basically, to only default to the error when opsys is set to systems
which use GCC.