On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:03:39PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 10:23, Fahad G. wrote:
> > I checked and I don't have 'readline' installed. --without-readline did the
> > trick, but shouldn't this be handled automatically?
>
> This is intentional -- what's wrong with stopping? ISTM that stopping
> and letting the user know what went wrong is probably better than just
> continuing: many users will install readline when they discover it isn't
> installed, and it is easy to miss a warning emitted by "configure" as
> its output flies past.
What about emitting at the end of configure something like
Features enabled:
command line editing, parser generation, PL/Perl
Features disabled:
coffee maker, online gambling, PL/Python
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