Re: Compiling emacs 22 on ubuntu 7.0.4

[Jan Djärv]

Richard Stallman skrev:
>     I have machines where no libpng or lib(un)gif are installed.  But I don't need 
>     that functionallity in Emacs.  So why should Emacs reuire those libraries? 
>
> Is there some particular reason why you want to avoid installing those
> libraries there?

I would have to install them as a regular user, and then pass on correct -I 
and -L to configure so it finds them.

> Kastrup wrote:
>
>     I don't mind being able to specify --without-libpng and/or
>     --without-libgif, but the default behavior makes it somewhat too easy
>     to overlook that one is not generating a fully-capable Emacs for a
>     given platform.
>
> I agree.

--without-gif is OK for me also.

        Jan D.