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Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit.
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit. |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:53:46 -0600 (CST) |
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
However, it is not a *known* (to the configure script developer)
dependency. The failure is due to an indirect dependency.
In which case we are no worse off than we are now, but where things
are known, we are better off.
Yes, indeed.
Your ideas will be best furthered by studying how Autoconf works and
providing patches which implement a proposed solution. Probably a new
macro is required in order to check if there is information available
regarding the missing package, and present the information in a nice
format.
It may be that you have set your goals several orders of magnitute too
low. Perhaps it is best to develop an entirely new application which
consults a system-wide knowledge-base, or a server over the Internet,
in order to obtain the most current package information. If your
application is installed, then Autoconf macros could make use of it to
provide enhanced information to the user.
The 'pkg-config' program is an example of an external application
which is often used by configure scripts.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
- RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Thomas Dickey, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Thomas Dickey, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/02/22
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit.,
Bob Friesenhahn <=
Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Paul Eggert, 2005/02/22
Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Paul Eggert, 2005/02/22
Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/02/22
Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Jacob Meuser, 2005/02/22
Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/02/23