Re: Is there a way to insert a short pause?

[Steffen Dettmer]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> If one runs a configure script, and it needs to show a warning
> for some reason, that could be missed by someone quite easily.
> Is there a way I could
> insert a 10s or so pause, so it becomes more obvious, and they hopefully
> take time to read the warning?

Isn't "sleep 10" portable?
Maybe better use AC_MSG_ERROR unless some --disable-error-xyz is given?

I'm afraid in most cases configure warnings are ignored anyway,
as long as make install works, so I think best to compile-in the
state of all affecting options and show them e.g. in ./myprg --version
and require this as mandatory information in bug reports.

oki,

Steffen