[TS-326] Configure doesn't give a nice error message if tcl-devel is missing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0a
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.2
• Component/s: Build

Environment

Fedora 12

• Assignee: Leif Hedstrom
• Reporter: Mark Nottingham
• Created: 28/Apr/10 06:28
• Updated: 25/Aug/10 02:53
• Resolved: 11/Jun/10 15:32

Description

Configure doesn't give a nice error message if tcl-devel is missing (whereas others do, e.g., expat-devel, openssl-devel):

checking for Tcl configuration... configure: WARNING: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions

It just dies without any other message after this.

A nicer example:

checking for sqlite3_open_v2 in -lsqlite3... no
configure: error: in `/home/mnot/trafficserver-2.0.0':
configure: error: check for sqlite3 failed. Have you installed sqlite3-devel?