Re: trouble compiling

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-May-2012, Mike Miller wrote:

| On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
| >  AC_MSG_NOTICE([NOTE: Libraries or auxiliary programs may be skipped if they
| > are])
| >  AC_MSG_NOTICE([      not found OR if they are missing required features on
| > your])
| >  AC_MSG_NOTICE([      system. ])
| >
| >  OCTAVE_CONFIGURE_WARNING([flex not found.  Needed to reconstruct lex.cc,
| > such])
| >   AC_MSG_NOTICE([         as from VCS sources.])
| >
| >  OCTAVE_CONFIGURE_WARNING([bison not found.  Needed to reconstruct parse.cc,
| > such])
| >   AC_MSG_NOTICE([         as from VCS sources.])
| >
| > Would that work?  In addition to being a more condensed summary, it also
| > gets rid of the "but it's only a problem" phrase which I think makes the
| > warning sound insignificant.  Let the user interpret how important the
| > warning is to his or her situation.
| 
| I'd be okay with the wording change.

VCS?  What is a VCS?  That jargon is likely to confuse people.

I don't see what was wrong with the original wording.  Was it not
clear?  Was it too long to read?

jwe