Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit.

[Paul Eggert]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> AC_MSG_NEED(PACKAGE, TEXT)
> ------------------------------
> Prints a message and saves it for later usage.

My main comment is that the suggestion should be generalized.
Users should be able to append arbitrary messages, not just
suggestions for particular packages.

For example, we could add an optional argument for AC_MSG_NOTICE, that
says the notice should be appended to the end of the output rather
than put into the middle.  Then the user could do something like this:

AC_MSG_NOTICE([Suggestion for foo: grab the latest foo from foo.org.], 1)
AC_MSG_NOTICE(
  [Suggestion for libxy --with graphs: get libxy from http://sf.net/xy.], 1)

As a nicety, notices at the end could be sorted by numeric value of
the priority number.