On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:04:50PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I think PKG_CHECK_MODULES is a good idea, but is there some way to give > a more helpful error to tell people to install the pkg-config package on > their system? Not easily since there's a lot of different parts pointing fingers at each other. Your error message is not actually from Autoconf but from the shell, which in this case looks like bash. Other shells might give you better or worse explanations. Marcus _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf