From a7feac3b13cc04156f5615e8eb84cd1cb5a0936e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:59:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add advice to an error message.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gnulib-tool | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 70b592d976..c72f224f59 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-09-18 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ * gnulib-tool: Add advice to "cannot find configure.ac" error message.
+ Reported by <erobles@sensacd.com.mx>.
+
2009-09-17 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
canonicalize: in CAN_ALL_BUT_LAST, allow trailing slash
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index 46f5f8790d..a84743197b 100755
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -4420,7 +4420,7 @@ case $mode in
if test -f "$destdir"/configure.in; then
configure_ac="$destdir/configure.in"
else
- func_fatal_error "cannot find $destdir/configure.ac"
+ func_fatal_error "cannot find $destdir/configure.ac - make sure you run gnulib-tool from within your package's directory"
fi
fi
--
2.30.2