On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:03:39PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 10:23, Fahad G. wrote: > > I checked and I don't have 'readline' installed. --without-readline did the > > trick, but shouldn't this be handled automatically? > > This is intentional -- what's wrong with stopping? ISTM that stopping > and letting the user know what went wrong is probably better than just > continuing: many users will install readline when they discover it isn't > installed, and it is easy to miss a warning emitted by "configure" as > its output flies past.
What about emitting at the end of configure something like Features enabled: command line editing, parser generation, PL/Perl Features disabled: coffee maker, online gambling, PL/Python -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "And as an added bonus, now my computer goes to the toilet for me, leaving me free to spend time on more useful activities! yay slug codefests!" (C. Parker) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])