Hi, On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx> writes: > > > AC_MSG_NEED(PACKAGE, TEXT) > > ------------------------------ > > Prints a message and saves it for later usage. > > My main comment is that the suggestion should be generalized. Genearlly speaking, I proposed more specific macros to make them look simpler to encouradge usage. (Of course they can be implemented over a more general layer.) Your suggestion could also work, if properly explained in the documentation. > Users should be able to append arbitrary messages, not just > suggestions for particular packages. Sure, but the main point is to encouradge them to mention packages there. They can abuse it to say AC_MSG_NEED(MTA, you need sendmail or postfix) or we can add another macro for general messages. > AC_MSG_NOTICE([Suggestion for foo: grab the latest foo from foo.org.], 1) > AC_MSG_NOTICE( > [Suggestion for libxy --with graphs: get libxy from http://sf.net/xy.], 1) You changed the formulation; it doesn't have the meaning I imagined. 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." "I suggest you to install package libxy, available from http://sf.net/xy, in order to proceed with this --with-graphs build. Alternativelym you can settle with --without-graphs." > As a nicety, notices at the end could be sorted by numeric value of > the priority number. Please note that my proposal contained other niceties: Suggestions: foo grab the latest foo from foo.org bar grab the latest bar from http://www.barbar.com (for --with-graphs): libxy use the latest xy library from http://www.xylib.net/ 1) the text is printed twice, first as a NOTICE, and second at the end. 2) at the end there is only one header "Suggestions:", followed by the list of packages. But yes, this can be implemented on top of AC_MSG_NOTICE/2 or AC_MSG_END. Have a nice day, Stepan _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
