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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] chunkd: Make AC_CHECK_LIB failure for libevent explicit
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:36:15 -0400
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To: Matthew Farrellee <matt@redhat.com>
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Matthew Farrellee wrote:
> When libevent headers were missing, configure would complete with an
> exit code of 1, but no clear message as to what failed. This patch
> makes things more clear as to why configure is exiting. It could be
> extended to include information about needing libevent headers or
> development libraries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Farrellee <matt@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure.ac |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index acea808..7e51b84 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ dnl Checks for required libraries
>  dnl -----------------------------
>  AC_CHECK_LIB(crypto, MD5_Init, CRYPTO_LIBS=-lcrypto)
>  AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_new, SSL_LIBS=-lssl)
> -AC_CHECK_LIB(event, event_base_new, EVENT_LIBS=-levent, exit 1)
> +AC_CHECK_LIB(event, event_base_new, EVENT_LIBS=-levent,
> +   [AC_MSG_ERROR([Missing required libevent])])
>  AC_CHECK_LIB(argp, argp_parse, ARGP_LIBS=-largp)
>  AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, bind, SOCKET_LIBS=-lsocket)
>  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(CLDC, libcldc)

ditto for tabled?