build-infra: Improve suggestions for missing packages on linux

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I'm working with a newly configured Linux box, trying the new build system, and I think I ran into some glitches (that I worked around).

The box (uname -a)

Linux bran 2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jun 23 02:39:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Before doing much work, I had already installed

  314 yum install libX11-devel.x86_64
  315 yum install libX11.x86_64 xorg-x11-apps.x86_64 xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64

autoconfigure then suggested that I install the following

  328 yum install libXtst-devel
  329 yum install cups-devel
  331 yum install freetype2-devel <----------- THIS FAILED!
  333 yum install freetype-devel.x86_64 <--- I tried this instead, it seemed to work
  334 yum install alsa-lib-devel

I then attempt to build, and it failed for lack of various include files

  345 yum install libXt-devel.x86_64 (for X11/Intrinsic.h)
  347 yum install libXrender-devel (for X11/extensions/Xrender.h)

That seemed to get me through the build, though I have not yet tested the X11 parts.

David


We should fix this