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sr #108144: ./configure could recommend packages to install through local package manager

Submitter:  Andrew Engelbrecht <sudoman>
Submitted:  Thu 27 Sep 2012 07:08:00 PM UTC
   
 
Priority:  * 5 - Unprioritized Severity:  1 - Wish
Status:  Wont Do Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Fri 10 Jul 2020 03:52:04 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Closing this old, declined feature request.

Zack Weinberg <zackw>
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Thu 27 Sep 2012 07:18:59 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The problem with trying to provide installation advice on missing prerequisite libraries is that configure scripts are written to be portable to all sorts of platforms, and there is no one canonical library name across all distros or even other OS for missing functionality.  Individual configure.ac authors may try to provide better information, but such information is better encoded into each configure.ac based on the actual libraries used by that package, rather than trying to teach autoconf how to make completely-generic interfaces like AC_CHECK_LIBS report on how to find missing libs.  Also, your request sounds something more like what pkg-config would be able to do than autoconf proper.

Eric Blake <ericb>
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Thu 27 Sep 2012 07:08:00 PM UTC, original submission:  

when ./configure can't find libraries that need to be installed, why not print a helpful command describing which packages can be installed through say apt, or pacman, depedning on the distro?

Andrew Engelbrecht <sudoman>

 

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