[Xlibs] Re: [cairo] COPYING files....

[Egbert Eich]

Jeff Carr writes:
 > > When I tried to build Xlib configure failed horribly (with a syntax error, 
 > > not a sane error message) when I did not have pkg-config installed.
 > 
 > That sounds like correct behavior from the point of view of
 > autoconf/automake. After all, that is the point of the configure script:
 > to determine if you have everything you need on your system to correctly
 > build the software. (pkg-config isn't part of autoconf/automake)

Right. But it did nor fail with a meaningful error message but with
a shell syntax error. This can hardly be called the 'correct behavior'.

 > 
 > It's a shame that it didn't give a clearer error about the missing
 > pkg-config (a check worthy of adding), but nonetheless the move to the
 > "more standard" gnu tools is encouraging.
 > 

This depends on the persceptive I would think.

Egbert.