GNU bug report logs - #39953
27.0.50; [PATCH] explicitly fail if Emacs was configured with but cannot compile native JSON support

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stéphane Maniaci <stephane.maniaci <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 15:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 39953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stéphane Maniaci <stephane.maniaci <at> gmail.com>,
 39953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39953: 27.0.50;
 [PATCH] explicitly fail if Emacs was configured with but cannot
 compile native JSON support
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:14:03 -0400

>> This patch explicitly fails ./configure if `--with-json' is passed but
>> cannot be fulfilled. Which means users without the Jansson headers
>> won't be able to compile Emacs unless explicitly disabling it with
>> `--without-json'; I don't know if that is too extreme,

This seems a bit too extreme to me, but I think giving an error on
missing Jansson headers only if --with-json is explicitly passed would
be okay.
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