olddir=`pwd`
cd $srcdir
-AUTORECONF=`which autoreconf`
-if test -z $AUTORECONF; then
+echo -n "checking for ragel... "
+which ragel || {
+ echo "You need to install ragel... See http://www.complang.org/ragel/"
+ exit 1
+}
+
+echo -n "checking for autoreconf... "
+which autoreconf || {
echo "*** No autoreconf found, please install it ***"
exit 1
-else
- autoreconf --force --install || exit $?
-fi
+}
+
+echo "running autoreconf"
+autoreconf --force --install || exit $?
cd $olddir
+echo "running configure $@"
test -n "$NOCONFIGURE" || "$srcdir/configure" "$@"