[OT] why does ./configure fail silently?

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Subject: [OT] why does ./configure fail silently?
From: Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:42:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010261940270.9307-100000@localhost>

Why is it  that ./configure scripts, if they  fail, almost always seem
to fail silently? For example I'll get a line like

Checking for extremely important crucial dependency...no

and the script will happily continue, generating makefiles and so on. 

chris

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