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: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 08:36:16 +0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> > 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.
>
> Why the distinction? what bad things will happen if we do this for any
> compiler?

Emacs will not install by just running:

      ./configure
      make
      su
      make install

from the distribution.