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They should be documented, IIUC the build script checks, thats why they fail to build.
Having to search the build script to find dependencies is not good.
The best situation would be to have the ./configure summary print something like this:
Plugins: Addons: yes [automatic] CodeNav: no [disabled by user] Debugger: no [missing `vte' package] [...]
I'm not sure how much a PITA this would be to write though.
That of course is a better solution, but I assumed it was too hard with autofools, WAF would of course just be print "I can't find ..." in appropriate places.
Cheers Lex