Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you gain by knowing this at configure time, rather than at "make" > time, a little later? To proceed with the build, you need to install gperf > anyway.
In PSPP, we've been trying to display all the missing prerequisite libraries together at the end of a single configure run, instead of just failing the configure run after finding the first missing prerequisite library. It would be a natural extension to apply this to helper tools such as gperf. -- "Unix... is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." --Neal Stephenson
