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./configure : Show all missing packages at once

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I have compiled a package that uses autotools as build system (autoreconf, ./configure, make, make install). ./configure stops when a package is missing. For each missing package, I look up its name, then either I do apt install package or I compile it from source if not available. Then I run ./configure again and it tells me the name of another unsatisfied dependency. If there are only one or two missing packages, this is ok. But there were 19! libmspack-dev libglib2.0-dev libpam0g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libx11-dev libcunit1-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxtst-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libtool dnet I would like ./configure to continue on error, and show me all missing packages at once, so I can install them all at once. Otherwise it is long and painful to run ./configure and apt install 19 times.
Asked by Bilow (654 rep)
Jul 27, 2018, 08:24 AM
Last activity: Jul 27, 2018, 06:21 PM