GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 331963
configure should be more verbose about missing deps
Last modified: 2009-09-10 15:22:35 UTC
Currently to understand what libraries are missing for a external pluging to be built, one should read the configure.in script. This can be changed such that the configure reports what's missing for every external plugin that will not be built. This can be easily done by setting variables to something like "no (mad >= 0.15 not found)" instead of "no"...
See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-January/006161.html for a sample implementation of this for cairo.
Behdad, are the configure scripts still not verbose enough ?
Closing as nobody responded since a few months
I missed that comment it seems, but yeah, I filed this over three years ago. Chances are it's not an issue anymore.