Re: [PATCH] improve 'autotools-install'

[Jim Meyering]

Assaf Gordon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Trying to use 'scripts/autotools-install' on a problematic system (Mac
> OS X 10.6.8, already has few other related bugs), building
> "pkg-config" fails.
>
> Two patches attached:
>
> 1. When "./configure" or "make" fail, use "die()" to print an error,
> pointing the user to the error log file.
> This helps when troubleshooting errors, because the script has "set
> -e" and simply exits on errors.
>
> 2. Recent "pkg-config" has a cyclic requirement of "glib", explained
> in the README [1]:

Often, these days, when I run this script, I do not require pkg-config,
and do not want to encourage its use in projects that aren't already
tied to it.  Do you need it?  When I have not needed it, I've temporarily
commented out a line or two so we don't download or build it.