Re: problem building latest cvs snapshot

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
> James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>=20
>> Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...> wrote:
>>
>> =20
>>
>>>   4) Could the following warnings be removed?
>>>
>>>   checking for CAIRO... Package cairo was not found in the
>>>   pkg-config search path.
>>>   Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc' to the
>>>   PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>>>   No package 'cairo' found
>>>   configure: WARNING: Cairo can't be found. The wxWidgets terminal
>>>   will not be compiled.
>>>    =20
>>
>> ...
>> =20
>>
>>>   Isn't it the job of the auto-build tools to sort out what should
>>>   and shouldn't be built?  This isn't a valid situation for warnings
>>>   from my perspective.
>>>    =20
>>
>>
>> I for one appreciate these warnings.  If I am interested in the
>> missing functionality, they tell me what other software I should look
>> for.
>>             - Jim Van Zandt
>>  =20
>=20
> Daniel, would it satisfy you if I replace the "WARNING" by "NOTE" ?

Not really.  In my opinion, be more terse.  Here there are three warnings=
:

configure: WARNING: Pango can't be found. The wxWidgets terminal will not=
 be compiled.
configure: WARNING: Cairo can't be found. The wxWidgets terminal will not=
 be compiled.
configure: WARNING: Cairo rendering support for Pango can't be found. The=
 wxWidgets terminal will not be compiled.

stating wxWidgets terminal will not be included.  Too wordy and redundant.

Ethan, what kind of warning messages are given when JPEG, PNG, etc. aren'=
t available?  Can this be summarized at the bottom of ./configure along w=
ith all the other items listed?  E.g.,

Do not build wxWidgets (requires Cairo, Pango or CairoPango)

Dan