[QPID-4418] configure gives misleading error if g++ missing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.18
• Fix Version/s: 0.19
• Assignee: Darryl Pierce
• Reporter: Jimmy Jones
• Created: 03/Nov/12 21:01
• Updated: 14/Mar/17 20:07
• Resolved: 13/Nov/12 15:32

Description

Tried on both RHEL5 & 6, if g++ isn't installed (but boost-devel is), configure fails with:

Checking for boost/shared_ptr.hpp... no
configure: error: Missing required header files.

which is a bit misleading...