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| author |   Seebs <seebs@seebs.net> | 2016-11-04 13:42:05 -0500 |
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| committer | Seebs <seebs@seebs.net> | 2016-11-04 13:42:05 -0500 |
| commit | 11b74aee8d35fd224d03804a07ce82c332b6630c (patch) | |
| tree | b4f196a35e059b33035cc1db12ea5d959cb0f1d9 | |
| parent | 45eca34c754d416a38bee90fb2d3c110a0b6cc5f (diff) | |
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Improve diagnostic
The output from configure with no --prefix is not as explicit as
it should perhaps be about why it's failing and printing a usage
message.
Signed-off-by: Seebs <seebs@seebs.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | configure | 3 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt index 6466806..411229f 100644 --- a/ChangeLog.txt +++ b/ChangeLog.txt @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +2016-11-04: + * (seebs) clarify usage message on missing --prefix + 2016-10-31: * (seebs) drop silly if @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ compile_x86_64=-m64 usage() { + [ -n "$*" ] && echo >&2 "$*" echo >&2 "usage:" echo >&2 " configure --prefix=..." echo >&2 " [--libdir=...]" @@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ if $use_maybe_rpath && [ -n "$maybe_rpath" ]; then fi if [ -z "$opt_prefix" ]; then - usage + usage "Error: You must specify a prefix path for installation (--prefix=)." fi if [ -z "$opt_libdir" ]; then |