Re: [chat] portable scripting

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Conrad Parker wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:59:42PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> 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 ;-)
>
>yep ... 642 lines of it ... plus it does a full configuration
>summary in one pass where possible, instead of barfing on each
>dependency one by one ...

What, prints out at the end an entire "you have ogg installed here, you
don't have gtk installed" kinda thing?  Crikey.

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