Hello Tim, * Tim Post wrote on Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:38:50AM CEST: > > I am trying to create a ./configure that prompts the use to auto install > packages that may be missing in order to complete the build. > > For instance: > > checking for main in libfoo [no] > libfoo is missing, would you like to install it? [Y/n]
How would that work? On this system I'm sitting at, you'd have to be super user to install, and while I may be in charge, I'm certainly not going to hand out the password to your configure script; neither will I compile sources as super user. On another system, the only way to globally install software is to write a friendly mail to the people in charge. On the next again, it is not even possible to locally (i.e., below $HOME) install additional software compiled from source. > Does anyone know of any table anywhere that correlates colloquial > package names to the specific names that various package installers want > to hear? No, but I do know that going the other way round, i.e., from distro packaging tools like rpm or apt, to building sources already works very nicely. For example "apt-get source ..." or "apt-get build-dep ...". Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
