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bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux. |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:30:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> I tried that approach, but abandoned it because it didn't work well.
> If we do something like this:
>
> $(srcdir)/configure: $(AUTOCONF_INPUTS)
> - cd ${srcdir} && autoconf
> + cd ${srcdir} && autoconf || { \
> + echo 'Please run ./autogen.sh before reporting a bug.'; \
> + exit 1; \
> + }
Can't you put the message in a variable (or something)? Either that, or
suppress printing this particular line...
> Yes, of course. But if the failure is something that autogen.sh can
> repair (which was the case with Jan's problem), then invoking
> autogen.sh is a win. And if it's something that autogen.sh can't
> repair, then we're no worse off than before. So falling back on
> autogen.sh seems to be a win overall.
If the build failure is something completely irrelevant to autogen.sh
(if, for instance, we're hacking the sources), then having autogen.sh
run unexpectedly would be annoying.
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- bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux., Paul Eggert, 2011/09/07
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- bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux.,
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