[m-rev.] for review: Provide a helpful error if no C sharp compiler could be found

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:12:19PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > When I was addressing the review comments of my earlier submitted patches,
> > I
> > saw the opportunity to add the following additional change.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Provide a helpful error if no C sharp compiler could be found
> >
> > m4/mercury.m4:
> >     If the user specified one or more possible C sharp compilers and none
> >     of them were suitable, then report an error and abort.
> > ---
> >  m4/mercury.m4 | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/m4/mercury.m4 b/m4/mercury.m4
> > index 88aa79f..dd34cc8 100644
> > --- a/m4/mercury.m4
> > +++ b/m4/mercury.m4
> > @@ -369,6 +369,13 @@ EOF
> >      esac
> >  done
> >
> > +# If the user specified one or more compilers and we couldn't find any
> > +# then abort configuration.
> > +if test "$mercury_cv_with_csharp_compiler" != "" -a "$CSC" = ""; then
> > +    AC_MSG_ERROR([No C sharp compilers could be found.]
> 
> 
> How about:
> 
>     No working C# compiler could be found.

s/working/suitable/  Since a C# compiler might work but not support
generics.


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Paul Bone
http://www.bone.id.au