Failures during ./configure should mention config.log.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
index 284161853..2d25d248b 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
@@ -205,6 +205,12 @@ class Formula
         onoe e.inspect
         puts e.backtrace
         ohai "Rescuing build..."
+        if (e.was_running_configure? rescue false) and File.exist? 'config.log'
+          puts "It looks like an autotools configure failed."
+          puts "Gist 'config.log' and any error output when reporting an issue."
+          puts
+        end
+
         puts "When you exit this shell Homebrew will attempt to finalise the installation."
         puts "If nothing is installed or the shell exits with a non-zero error code,"
         puts "Homebrew will abort. The installation prefix is:"