Give a better error message when building if appstream-xml.m4 can't be found.

Bug #1650115 reported by Gary Houston
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Bug Description

I ran autogen.sh and it generated a data/Makefile with @APPSTREAM_XML_RULES@ not resolved, apparently because appstream-xml.m4 doesn't exist in /usr/share/aclocal/. This gives a cryptic message:

Makefile:794: *** missing separator. Stop.

It can be improved a bit by adding AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED([APPSTREAM_XML]) to configure.ac before APPSTREAM_XML, as per https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2015-September/msg07009.html

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Switched to Meson, should be better messages now.

Changed in simple-scan:
status: New → Fix Released
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