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

[Rudra Banerjee]

Hmm,
looks like no way (yet)!
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
>