gnome-autogen.sh and autogen.sh

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas urgent rug ac be>]

Hi gang,

I have a question re: gnome-autogen.sh

I think it would be better if the autogen.sh program would stop when any 
of the autotools (aclocal, autoheader, autoconf, automake, libtoolize, 
...) fails for some reason.  There are very few cases where a fatal error 
of any of these isn't something that blows up in your face during the 
configure or build later on.
I also noticed a few users building stuff from CVS giving error feedback 
that was weird, and which in the end seemed to result in them missing some 
development package, which contained the right .m4 file which aclocal 
wasn't finding and which caused all the rest to fail.

So my question is : would a patch to autogen.sh in gnome-common to do that 
be accepted ?  Or are there good reasons why this isn't done at the moment 
?

Thanks,
Thomas

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