Subject: Re: bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux.

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:46:26 -0400

>> would it be possible to have "make" spit out "Compilation failed;
>> have you tried running ./autogen.sh before reporting this as a bug?" if
>> building fails?

> Sure.  Or "make" could simply fall back on autogen.sh
> if the current approach fails.  That would be just as fast as
> now, in the normal case where the build works, and it would have
> addressed Jan's problem I expect.  How about something like this?

I much prefer a message, since the failure may be due to too
many things.

        Stefan