On 23.10.2012 18:05, Rudra Banerjee wrote: > I don't know if this is asking too much from autotools, but is it anyway > possible to install missing dependency files via autotools? > say, in my program, I use libsoup as > #include <libsoup/soup.h> > > is it possible for autotools to install libsoup if it is missing?
How many different package systems are there? I'll just name BSD ports besides the apt-get and yum you already mentioned ... And how do you find out which package the file is in? Ok, apt-cache search for Debian based distros, don't know enough about yum ... But then again: what if different packages provide the same file? E.g. due to different parallel versions, or for libraries due to mixed 32/64bit setups, or the right version may actually only be available in a custom ppa: yet and not in the mainline repos ... If at all i'd let configure print "you *may* want to install the xyz package first", but any automatic action would actually scare me ... -- hartmut