new build system configure step - a small suggestion

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 28/05/13 12:47, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> This has been brought up before and is a good idea. At least the 
> headers could be checked for in one go. The compiler is needed to 
> check for headers, so that would need to be a separate run.
Makes sense. Thanks!

Maurizio
>
> Creating bug JDK-8015483 to track the suggestion.
>
> /Erik
>
> On 2013-05-28 13:36, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Hi,
>> as I recently went through the process of reinstalling my OS, I had 
>> to get the JDK build up and running again (with Ubuntu). As expected, 
>> configure kept failing because of missing libraries; I counted 4 
>> failures:
>>
>> *) build-essential missing (gcc, etc.)
>> *) X headers missing
>> *) cups headers missing
>> *) alsa headers missing
>>
>> Since the output of the configure tool is already very good (i.e. it 
>> gives you the apt command needed to fetch missing stuff), wouldn't it 
>> be possible to somehow go through an entire scan of the system, and 
>> then report back a unique list of missing stuff instead of forcing 
>> users to do this trial and error approach?
>>
>> Of course this is a very minor adjustment to an overall very 
>> user-friendly process; I only wanted to share my experience.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Maurizio