[libvirt PATCH 1/4] meson: Print custom message when GNU grep is not installed

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 09:10:05 UTC 2021


On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 07:37:57PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Currently, if GNU grep is not installed on a FreeBSD system the
> configuration step will fail with
> 
>   Program grep found: YES (/usr/bin/grep)
>   Program /usr/local/bin/grep found: NO
> 
>   ERROR: Program '/usr/local/bin/grep' not found
> 
> which is confusing and not very useful; after this change, the
> message will be
> 
>   Program grep found: YES (/usr/bin/grep)
>   Program /usr/local/bin/grep found: NO
> 
>   ERROR: Problem encountered: GNU grep not found
> 
> instead, which should do a better job helping the user figure
> out that they need to install GNU grep from ports to proceed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>




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