On 2006-03-29, Brian Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> checking for ar... false
> [...]
> false cru .libs/libutils.a .libs/placeholder.o
> make[2]: *** [libutils.la] Error 1
If AR defaulted to "$(MISSING) ar" if no ar was found (instead of false), then
no error is given if ar is not found but never used, but the end user gets a
more helpful error if it's not found and is used:
WARNING: `ar' is needed, and is missing on your system.
You might have modified some files without having the
proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file,
it often tells you about the needed prerequisites for installing
this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
some other package would contain this missing `ar' program.
The message could be better (the second sentence is wrong), but it's better
than that quoted above. It could easily be improved too - just add a case for
ar to the missing script with a more specific error.
Cheers,
Olly
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