Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> Are you interested in doing something like that?
>
> Well all missing dependencies are currently reported I think,
> but it can be minutes into the build before this happens.
> I'll add a list to bootstrap.conf to give immediate feedback.

Great!

>> Regarding your build recipe, maybe we need a wiki?
>> New file?
>
> Perhaps we need a README-{fedora,debian,solaris,mingw,...}
> ./bootstrap should just work, but the above files would
> detail how best to get the prerequisites.

Or a README-prereq, and put them all in there?
Either one is fine with me.

Thanks again.