Re: [PATCH] issue warnings for more missing optional libraries

[Ben Pfaff]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> I like it. Even more I like the configure files that print a summary of the
> most important decisions or findings at the end of the configuration, thus
> giving an opportunity to the user to re-configure with different --with or
> --enable options. (Given the size of the configure output, hardly anyone looks
> through it in its entirety.)

I like this too.  GNU PSPP takes this approach a step further, by
reporting failure to find required libraries (etc.) only at the
end of the configure run, so that the user gets a complete list
of all the missing prerequisites, not just the first one that
configure could not find.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org