[Xastir] Delimitative list of dependencies ?

[Andrew Rich]

Here is a good place to start. explain to users that gcc is missing

most people just give up

linux:/xastir/xastir-1.5.0 # ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

Configuring xastir 1.5.0

checking build system type... i686-suse-linux
checking host system type... i686-suse-linux
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
linux:/xastir/xastir-1.5.0 #              
On Saturday 14 May 2005 03:29, Carl Makin wrote:
> On 14/05/2005, at 7:19 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
> > Maybe a script that checks for dependencies and reports what is
> > missing ?
>
> The configure script pretty much does exactly that.  What it doesn't
> say is what packages the missing files are a part of.  This would be
> very difficult as not only are the different OSes different, the
> different linux distributions are very different.
>
> If you need that level of support then perhaps waiting for the pre-
> packaged versions would be a better option.
>
>
> Carl.