Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Mircea Bardac <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > $ ./configure > [...] > > configure: CHECKS for header files > > In file included from daemon.c:1: > > cache.h:9:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory > > make: *** [daemon.o] Error 1 > > > > (installing zlib1g-dev on Ubuntu 7.10 fixed the problem) > > What should ./configure do (what ./configure for other programs > or packages do)? If one can determine during configure time that a required library is not found, it (IMHO) is nice to give an error message and bomb out (via AC_MSG_ERROR). The AC macro archive has a zlib macro which does this, as an example: http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/check_zlib.html I should note, however, that I disagree with that macro's logic in that it `searches' for zlib if the user does not specify it. IMO, if the user does not give a --with option, and it doesn't work `out of the box' (without hacking FLAGS), macros should die with an error rather than retry with changed FLAGS. -tom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
