If you're running on Ubuntu, the makefiles could check for the installed-ness of various build-time dependencies. The Ubuntu packagers (i.e. doko) must already have such a list.
Martin On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the first time, I've been trying a full complete build of OpenJDK > (full open+closed forest.) > > I'm building on Ubuntu, and the build has now failed a second time > because of a missing command -- or more specifically, a command which > is not installed by default. The first command was msgfmt, the latest > was bb. I do not know if there are more to come. > > It would be nice if make sanity had a mechanism for a quick existence > check for commands that are likely to be required during the build, so > that missing commands can be detected and reported early, and not > one at a time at the end of a long build. > > -- Jon >
