java.awt.Robot needs libXtst

Mon Aug 22 17:48:00 GMT 2005

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
>> Per> Perhaps if configure doesn't find libXtst, it should either
> Per> (1) disable the Robot functionality; or
> Per> (2) print a more useful error message.
>> I agree.

>From my experience (and my own multiple additions to the ./configure
option maze in kaffe), I'd suggest simply printing a very descriptive
error message[1] and aborting the configure script.
Creating different sub-configurations for special cases has a pretty
high maintenance cost in the long term, as I've found out. :)
cheers,
dalibor topic
[1] "please install the libXtst development package, or turn off gtk
peers by passing the option --something to the configure script"