Re: apt-get/yum like dependency installation in autotool

[Baurzhan Ismagulov]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 06:35:20PM +0100, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
> looks like no way (yet)!

No way (I'd say, ever) for autotools since -- as others have already
written -- they have a very different scope.

After you ask about apt-get -- why, you already can 1.
dpkg-checkbuilddeps to see missing dependencies, and 2. sudo apt-get
build-dep <package> to install them.

Those require 1. properly created package metadata and 2. properly setup
apt sources, respectively. Both are not only distro-specific, but even
distro version-specific.

With kind regards,
Baurzhan.


> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 11:29 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 10/23/2012 11:19 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Rudra Banerjee <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >> I don't  know if this is asking too much from autotools, but is it 
> > >> anyway possible to install missing dependency files via autotools?
> > >> say, in my program, I use libsoup as
> > >> #include <libsoup/soup.h>
> > >>
> > >> is it possible for autotools to install libsoup if it is missing?
> > > 
> > > offhand, I'd say that's beyond the scope of autotools,
> > 
> > Agreed.  You're not the first person to ask, and this earlier thread
> > should give you more clues why autotools is not the place to do this:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2012-09/msg00049.html