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Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit.
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Stepan Kasal |
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Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit. |
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Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:47:30 +0100 |
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Hello,
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:25:00AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> > I wanted to say:
> > "I suggest you to install package foo, which can be grabbed from foo.org,
> > in order to proceed with this build."
>
> Ouch. That's not how I interpreted your output. Perhaps we should
> rethink the output format.
definitely. That's part of the work I hope Hugh will do for us. ;-)
> > 2) at the end there is only one header "Suggestions:", followed by the
> > list of packages.
> (2) is a nicety, but it isn't crucial. I don't see that it's worth
> trading generality for.
Sure. What I'm trading generality for, is that people tend to prefer
simpler macros. I still see many places where people use AC_ARG_WITH
without AS_HELP_STRING, so I want a specific macro here, perhaps build
on top of a general one.
> > 1) the text is printed twice, first as a NOTICE, and second at the end.
> (1) might be worth doing -- perhaps we could use a list of priorities,
> rather than a single priority, and output N copies of the message if
> the list is length N. I'm not sure whether it's worth doing, though.
I think it might be better if AC_MSG_NEED called the generalized
AC_MSG_NOTICE twice. We can also do:
AS_IF([test "x$printed_a_need" = x],
[AC_MSG_NOTICE([Summary of suggestions:], 1)
printed_a_need=yes
])
at the beginning of AC_MSG_NEED in order to implement (2).
But I'm not going to do any code, before I someone (Hugh?) contributes
a doc patch, with examples etc.
Have a nice day,
Stepan Kasal
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Stepan Kasal, 2005/03/01
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Stepan Kasal, 2005/03/01
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/03/01
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Paul Eggert, 2005/03/01
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Stepan Kasal, 2005/03/02
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Paul Eggert, 2005/03/02
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit.,
Stepan Kasal <=
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/03/03
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Stepan Kasal, 2005/03/04
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/03/04
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Stepan Kasal, 2005/03/04
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/03/04
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Paul Eggert, 2005/03/04
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/03/07
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., John W. Eaton, 2005/03/04
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng, 2005/03/04
- Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit., John W. Eaton, 2005/03/04