[GHC] #1299: "sh boot" should give a better error message if automake isn't installed

[GHC]

#1299: "sh boot" should give a better error message if automake isn't installed
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    Reporter:  chevalier at alum.wellesley.edu  |        Owner:         
        Type:  feature request               |       Status:  new    
    Priority:  normal                        |    Milestone:         
   Component:  Build System                  |      Version:  6.6.1  
    Severity:  minor                         |   Resolution:         
    Keywords:                                |   Difficulty:  Unknown
          Os:  Linux                         |     Testcase:         
Architecture:  Unknown                       |  
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Comment (by igloo):

 Hrm, the reason you get the messages 5 times is that autoreconf doesn't
 fail as a result of them, so we don't know anything has gone wrong and
 keep going. As we autoreconf in `ghc` and
 `libraries/{base,Win32,readline,unix}` the messages are given 5 times. I'm
 not sure what we can do about that.

 As for detecting automake, the problem is that we don't call it directly
 ourselves, so we don't know where it is (particularly when autoreconf
 isn't installed in the standard location).

 Has anyone got any suggestions, or should I just close the bug?

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1299>
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