On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:16:32AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Sorry, that's FUD. AC_MSG_ERROR (currently disabled) would print an > error message and abort. LYX_ERROR would not abort but would print an > error message at the end of configuration. In other words, it would > do exactly what the current code in qt.m4 does together with the > cobbled on bit at the end in configure.ac. The difference is that, > with my suggestion, the code is self-contained.
I suppose I should mention again that I have no idea why it's a good idea to have to wait to the end to discover your machine setup is screwed. john