On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 06:35:20PM +0100, Rudra Banerjee wrote: > looks like no way (yet)!
No way (I'd say, ever) for autotools since -- as others have already written -- they have a very different scope. After you ask about apt-get -- why, you already can 1. dpkg-checkbuilddeps to see missing dependencies, and 2. sudo apt-get build-dep <package> to install them. Those require 1. properly created package metadata and 2. properly setup apt sources, respectively. Both are not only distro-specific, but even distro version-specific. With kind regards, Baurzhan. > On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 11:29 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 10/23/2012 11:19 AM, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.ru...@yahoo.com> > > > wrote: > > >> I don't know if this is asking too much from autotools, but is it > > >> anyway possible to install missing dependency files via autotools? > > >> say, in my program, I use libsoup as > > >> #include <libsoup/soup.h> > > >> > > >> is it possible for autotools to install libsoup if it is missing? > > > > > > offhand, I'd say that's beyond the scope of autotools, > > > > Agreed. You're not the first person to ask, and this earlier thread > > should give you more clues why autotools is not the place to do this: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2012-09/msg00049.html