Re: Merging feature/android

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 21:38:39 -0800
> Cc: arsen@aarsen.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> On 2023-03-07 15:55, Po Lu wrote:
> > XPM is actually a good example of what I'm talking about: it is used by 
> > default only if the system in question typically has libXpm preinstalled.
> 
> That's not true for JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, GnuTLS, and probably other 
> libraries.
> 
> I routinely run into the sort of messages that Eli is talking about if I 
> run plain 'configure' on some platforms. Solaris 10, for example, 
> typically doesn't have a JPEG library installed. It's not that big a 
> deal to read the error message at the end of the failed 'configure', 
> sigh, and re-run configure with the --with-jpeg=ifavailable option that 
> 'configure' suggests.

100% agreement.