This has been brought up before and is a good idea. At least the headers
could be checked for in one go. The compiler is needed to check for
headers, so that would need to be a separate run.
Creating bug JDK-8015483 to track the suggestion.
/Erik
On 2013-05-28 13:36, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
Hi,
as I recently went through the process of reinstalling my OS, I had to
get the JDK build up and running again (with Ubuntu). As expected,
configure kept failing because of missing libraries; I counted 4
failures:
*) build-essential missing (gcc, etc.)
*) X headers missing
*) cups headers missing
*) alsa headers missing
Since the output of the configure tool is already very good (i.e. it
gives you the apt command needed to fetch missing stuff), wouldn't it
be possible to somehow go through an entire scan of the system, and
then report back a unique list of missing stuff instead of forcing
users to do this trial and error approach?
Of course this is a very minor adjustment to an overall very
user-friendly process; I only wanted to share my experience.
Thanks
Maurizio
