On Sun, 16 May 2010 21:33:17 +0200 (CEST) "Oliver Seitz" <info at vtnd.de> wrote: > > The configure hints "Checking for foo..." > > were pretty sufficient to put the name into my favorite search engine > > (in case I didn't know where to look for already), get the source or > > check where the header required is found in a package (sometimes a guy > > gets lazy), compile and/or install and run mplayer's configure again > > to check if it works. > > That's what I call non-trivial. Keeping in mind the dozens of iterations > before everything you wanted is configured. Therefore I suspect you're to young to remember imake... ;-) -- Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.
