Re: Can't configure automake 1.9.2

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Karl Schmitz wrote:

        [...]
> > That's right.  But automake need autoconf later when you run it,
> > so we check that prerequisite at configure-time.
> > --
> > Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>
> I still consider this behaviour a bug. What you talk about in your response
> is RUN
> time, not build time. Why don't you check prerequisites for earnest in the
> `install:' target; at least THAT would make sense to me ...

"fail early, fail often".  Why should people waste time doing a
build if they'll find they can't do the install doe to a condition
detectable much earlier?
> Best regards,
>
> Karl Schmitz
        Hugh