On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:08:18AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >> > but the fact is that the check is not precise enough. >> >> It is very precise. It does not check for a compiler, because >> having a compiler installed for compiling is obvious. >> Having those additional packages installed is less obvious. > > True, but because the compiler is so obvious it is easy to overlook. > > At the very least the message is not clear enough. It claims to check > for this package but in fact it isn't the only requirements, and when > the check says that the package wasn't found, that can be incorrect. > I don't think we should have error messages that can be false like > that.
I've seen this too, where I had a compiler installed but forgot to set CC or link it to gcc or some such thing. Wouldn't the more correct workaround be to do a compiler check? -Corey -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
