I'm not sure I'm writing it to the right place, but please take time to read and forward it to the right place. I think, that you can add an option in autoconf (that will make configure files much easier to use in some cases... it doesn't require much programming as I can see at the moment) :
Here it goes : When I ./configure a file and it can't find a lib, whatever it can be very useful as standart (if you guys include the --search-missing=true option) : (it can also run ldconfig... but should be as other option I think) The --search-missing=true/false if enabled will use the whereis/which/find/locate commands to search for files that couldn't been found. Lets say I'm starting a program which can't find liblamemp3.o file, if I run the ./configure --search-missing=true option it will look for lib-lame with whereis/which lame it should find it in no time, also, if didn't find, it can use the find / -name "lame" -print option for example. It might increase configuration time so it should be disabled by default, but making it enable can save hours of searching each package that couldn't be found by ./configure. Consider this idea, Everyone I've explained it too, thought it's a great idea, if you got questions about this idea, or algorithm confusions, feel free to email me back. Itzhak Avraham.
