autogen should warn about missing libtool in a comprehensible way
@jeff
Submitted by Jeff F.T. Assigned to Jeff F.T. @jeff
Description
One of the problems I often see with newcomers is that they stumble on this error because libtool is missing:
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
./configure: line 5876: syntax error near unexpected token 0.35.0' ./configure: line 5876:
IT_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.35.0)'
configure failed
Ideally, it should be made clearer that the user simply needs to install libtool.
Imported from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583508