Re: problem building latest cvs snapshot

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>  4) Could the following warnings be removed?
>>
>>  checking for CAIRO... Package cairo was not found in the
>>  pkg-config search path.
>>  Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc' to the
>>  PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>>  No package 'cairo' found
>>  configure: WARNING: Cairo can't be found. The wxWidgets terminal
>>  will not be compiled.
> 
> ...
> 
>>  Isn't it the job of the auto-build tools to sort out what should
>>  and shouldn't be built?  This isn't a valid situation for warnings
>>  from my perspective.
> 
> 
> I for one appreciate these warnings.  If I am interested in the
> missing functionality, they tell me what other software I should look
> for. 

Yes, but the key word there being "if".  I mean, why can't this:

checking for CAIRO... Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairo' found
configure: WARNING: Cairo can't be found. The wxWidgets terminal will not be compiled.

be summarized as:

checking for CAIRO... no

As with the several other cases where "no" comes up in the ./configure operation, logic tells me that configure could not find the package and therefore it will not be included in the compilation.  Why does there need to be a WARNING to tell me that?  The only real bit of info in the above message is "Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable" and even that is wordy.  And, once that is stated it becomes redundant information when it is displayed several more times later.

And this one:

checking for PANGO... Requested 'pango >= 1.10' but version of Pango is 1.6.0

could be:

checking for PANGO... found 1.6.0, require >= 1.10

Most people understand the ramification of that.  We don't then need to know:

configure: WARNING: Pango can't be found. The wxWidgets terminal will not be compiled.

which in fact seems like a conflicting report to me.  Pango WAS found, it just isn't a recent enough version.

Perhaps there should be a verbose mode for configure.

Dan