Hi,
I've just started free software development and I'm learning autotools. While
trying to
build different free software packages I've found one that I think can be
improved in
autotools. Basically, every time I want to build a completely new code base I
go through
this process where I run configure or autogen.sh, it then tells me I need package
"abc",
so then I install package abc and finally I try running configure/autogen.sh
again.
Rinse and repeat about 3-10 times depending on the complexity of the code base.
I'd suggest that you by default will instead check all the package requirements
upfront
and then print a list of all the missing packages directly. This means that the
user does
not have to re-execute configure/autogen.sh many times, instead it will be
sufficient in
most cases to run it only twice.
Please put me on explicit CC if you reply to this e-mail because I'm not
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the mailing list itself. Thank you.
Martin
