Re: [help-gnuastro] GNU Astro configure error - missing WCSLIB component

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Hi again Duane,

Sorry I just noticed I forgot to answer your question about the nature 
of this `make check' failure.

It will just cause some inconvenience for those who want to use 
Gnuastro's BuildProgram program. It is a program for easily using 
Gnuastro's library on one's own C programs. It is described fully here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/BuildProgram.html

Due to this bug in Gnuastro 0.5, people using BuildProgram have to add 
the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS that you added to your configure script to 
their calls of BuildProgram (or put it in their configuration files).

So I wouldn't call it a serious bug. But of course, now that it is fixed 
in the newer version (along with many other bugs and new features), I 
would recommend simply using the newer version ;-).

Cheers,
Mohammad