and smooth so that you can soon be reading and processing your email
more efficiently than ever.
-If anything goes wrong in this process, please do as much as you can
-to figure out what could be different on your machine compared to
-those of the notmuch developers. Then, please email those details to
-the Notmuch list (notmuch@notmuchmail.org) so that we can hopefully make
-future versions of notmuch easier for you to use.
+If anything goes wrong in the configure process, you can override any
+decisions it makes by manually editing the Makefile.config file that
+it creates. Also please do as much as you can to figure out what could
+be different on your machine compared to those of the notmuch
+developers. Then, please email those details to the Notmuch list
+(notmuch@notmuchmail.org) so that we can hopefully make future
+versions of notmuch easier for you to use.
-We'll now investigate your system to find verify that various software
-components that notmuch relies on are available.
+We'll now investigate your system to verify that all required
+dependencies are available:
EOF
sudo apt-get install pkg-config
But if pkg-config is not available for your system, then you will need
-to manually edit the notmuch Makefile to set NOTMUCH_CFLAGS and
-NOTMUCH_LDFLAGS to the correct values without calling pkg-config.
+to manually edit the notmuch Makefile to set the variables such as
+CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to the correct values without calling pkg-config.
EOF
fi
# construct the Makefile.config
cat > Makefile.config <<EOF
prefix = /usr/local
-bash_completion_dir = /etc/bash_completion.d
CFLAGS += ${have_valgrind}
EOF