From: Ben Pfaff <blp@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:20:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Improve messages.
X-Git-Tag: v0.6.0~1186
X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5a0a6dc3fc4b850ef5cd2853a417fb651933a69;p=pspp-builds.git

Improve messages.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e6d97816..36b73156 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Oct 20 18:19:58 2005  Ben Pfaff  <blp@gnu.org>
+
+	* configure.ac: Improve error messages.  Thanks to Jaap-Andre de
+	Hoop <j.dehoop@data-assist.nl>.
+
 Sun Sep 25 16:11:09 2005  Ben Pfaff  <blp@gnu.org>
 
 	* Makefile.am: Handles `examples' as a subdirectory instead of a
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ca647eb0..3a1405fc 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(libplot, [  --without-libplot         don't compile in support of ch
 
 if test x"$with_libplot" != x"no" ; then 
 	AC_CHECK_LIB(plot, pl_newpl_r,,
-	  AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install libplot (or use --without-libplot)])
+	  AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install libplot development libraries (or use --without-libplot)])
 	)
 fi
 AM_CONDITIONAL(WITHCHARTS, test x"$with_libplot" != x"no")
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ int main (void)
 using Solaris.  You can probably fix the problem with
 `--disable-largefile' or `CFLAGS=-ansi'.])])
 
-AC_CHECK_LIB(gslcblas,main,,AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install libgslcblas]))
+AC_CHECK_LIB(gslcblas,main,,AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install libgslcblas development libraries]))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(gsl, gsl_cdf_chisq_Q,,
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install libgsl version 1.4 or later]))
+  AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install development libraries for libgsl version 1.4 or later]))
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(ncurses,
 [  --without-ncurses         don't compile in ncurses command line editing])