Right way to cope with user error in make test?

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> jwhite wrote:
>> The attached patch is one approach - skip the tests in this case.
>> Does this seem like a reasonable approach to folks?
> 
> I like it.
> 
> I would also like to see us get a lot tougher about
> letting people build wine without a full complement
> of development headers.  Maybe our configure
> should have a sanity check at the end, and abort
> if something optional but very common is missing;
> we could add a --no-sanity-check option to enable
> configuring in that case if it's really intended.
> - Dan
> 
IMHO configure should abort if any of the required libraries are missing and 
'--without-<bar>' flag was not given. Pretty much anything that prints out 
warning if it was not found.

Hopefully this will prevent broken builds and invalid bug/problem reports.

Vitaliy.