should attempt to parse error output for common failure cases
Submitted by Luis Villa
Assigned to James Henstridge @jamesh
Link to original bug (#171152)
Description
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In my happy imaginary dream world, it wouldn't be too hard to build a registry of regexps that match specific errors in build output, and a matching list of packages that should be installed to fix them. For example:
configure: error: could not find DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog
is a very common error for first-time builders of gtk-doc. Matching that string with docbook-xsl, and offering to yum/apt-get/rug the package and restart the build, seems like a nice way to make the initial build easier for first-timers.