changeset 12021:d625e819e6ea

Add advice to an error message.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:59:54 +0200
parents 29f9f80b67c1
children b5b01b7b8767
files ChangeLog gnulib-tool
diffstat 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-09-18  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	* gnulib-tool: Add advice to "cannot find configure.ac" error message.
+	Reported by <erobles@sensacd.com.mx>.
+
 2009-09-17  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
 	canonicalize: in CAN_ALL_BUT_LAST, allow trailing slash
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -4420,7 +4420,7 @@
       if test -f "$destdir"/configure.in; then
         configure_ac="$destdir/configure.in"
       else
-        func_fatal_error "cannot find $destdir/configure.ac"
+        func_fatal_error "cannot find $destdir/configure.ac - make sure you run gnulib-tool from within your package's directory"
       fi
     fi