Re: [chat] portable scripting

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Conrad Parker wrote:
>my point is that you can use autoconf to go beyond that level of
>checking -- you can diagnose improperly installed packages like the
>common case of a user installing a library but not its devel package,
>in which case the header files and pkgconfig description are not
>installed, yet the user complains "but I've installed the library!!!".
>You can use autoconf to detect this situation and politely educate the
>user about how to complete their installation.

Do you do this in sweep?  I might have to steal some of that stuff ;-)

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