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Re: Can you spot the error?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Can you spot the error?
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:24:25 -0600
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On 04/03/2014 10:49 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> * Eric Blake (address@hidden) [20140403 16:27]:
> 
>> This AC_MSG_ERROR line is missing quoting.
> 
> Found the reason and searching for a brown paper bag :-) I had forgotten to
> add pkg-config to the BuildRequires of the package and thus PKG_CHECK_MODULE
> was undefined. Sorry for the noise, but I did learn a bit more what to fix
> in configure.ac's, so the time hasn't been all wasted.

Next time, add this to your configure.ac:

m4_pattern_forbid([^PKG_])

It will force failure to install pkg-config to be a much saner error
message.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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