cute tail display of config.log, to include a header

[debhelper.git] / Debian / Debhelper / Buildsystem / autoconf.pm

diff --git a/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/autoconf.pm b/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/autoconf.pm
index c92e2c1f1785c2080f965ce71cd80e3ecd31be0d..a97de9c66ab9f85a670f4c94b01a47f1312eac1b 100644 (file)
--- a/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/autoconf.pm
+++ b/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/autoconf.pm
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# A buildsystem plugin for handling autoconf based projects
+# A debhelper build system class for handling Autoconf based projects
 #
 # Copyright: © 2008 Joey Hess
 #            © 2008-2009 Modestas Vainius
@@ -49,7 +49,15 @@ sub configure {
        }
 
        $this->mkdir_builddir();
-       $this->doit_in_builddir($this->get_source_rel2builddir("configure"), @opts, @_);
+       eval {
+               $this->doit_in_builddir($this->get_source_rel2builddir("configure"), @opts, @_);
+       };
+       if ($@) {
+               if (-e $this->get_buildpath("config.log")) {
+                       $this->doit_in_builddir("tail -v -n +0 config.log");
+               }
+               die $@;
+       }
 }
 
-1;
+1