Re: Over-zealous error message

[akim]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this has been reported before (it probably has),
> > but when bootstrapping libtool 1.4.cvs (and the same happens
> > with the 1.4 release) using autoconf 2.50 (or CVS HEAD), I get
> > these errors:
> >
> > configure.in:19: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBLTDL_INSTALLABLE
> > configure.in:19: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE
> 
> Actually, it no longer does this, as it now uses
> 
>  AC_MSG_WARN([*** The top-level configure must select either])
>  AC_MSG_WARN([*** [A""C_LIBLTDL_INSTALLABLE] or [A""C_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE.])
>  AC_MSG_ERROR([*** Maybe you want to --enable-ltdl-install?])
> 
> But this still looks like an awful kludge to me - users should not be
> required to bend over backwards like this.
> 
usually, when you need to name a macro in an error message, you
want an M4 error, not sh.  Hence AC_FATAL.