Re: fail autogen.sh when aclocal-1.4 fails

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On 23 Sep 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 23:08, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > I've been meaning to propose that too.
> >
> > While you're at it, AFAIK you can do the same for autoconf, autoheader and
> > automake.  If they return a value, the problem is almost always fatal and
> > hard to spot based on further build or compilation logging.  Unless
> > someone knows of specific cases where any of these exits with non-zero but
> > the error is actually recoverable and not easily avoidable ?
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >  > Heya,
> > >
> > > I'm getting funky errors from people who don't install the ALSA libs and
> > > want to compile ACME CVS.
> > >
> > > Here's a patch to fail autogen.sh when aclocal-1.4 fails.
> > >
> > > OK to commit ?
>
> Dunnit.
>
> Patch attached. Works here. OK to commit ?

	A lot of the time auto* non-zero returns *are* non-fatal
errors.

	Committing this patch would be equivalent to foisting -Werror
on the whole stack. At the very least branch a gnome-2-0 branch of
gnome-common before committing so that the resulting build breakage is
at least only on HEAD.

Good Luck,
Mark.