Public bug reported:
While trying to build different free software packages, every time I want to
build a completely new code base I go through this tedious process where I run
configure or autogen.sh, it then tells me I need package "abc",
so then I install package abc and finally I try running configure/autogen.sh
again. Rinse and repeat about 3-10 times depending on the complexity of the
code base.
I'd suggest that by default will instead check all the package
requirements upfront and then print a list of all the missing packages
directly. This means that the user does not have to re-execute
configure/autogen.sh many times, instead it will be sufficient in most
cases to run it only twice.
I know about "apt-get build-dep" but A) this does not cover non-packaged
software, and B) just because this is a distro-specific workaround does
not mean that autotools itself should not be improved.
I'm sure there is many people out there who would get more work done if
we made the autotools workflow simpler. Another aspect of it is that it
will become easier to get started as a free software developer, because
getting something to compile is one of the first things a new dev must
master and if that's a long tedious process many people might get turned
off and go do something else instead.
I could not find an upstream bug tracker for autotools, do they even
have one or do they do all their bugs through their e-mail address?
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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autogen.sh/configure workflow improvement
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270036
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