can we resolve that "systemtap requires elfutils 0.123+" configure error?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  a while back, i reported this configuration error, which is
described here as well:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2006-q3/msg00468.html

  would it be possible to rework the configuration step so that the
error is at least meaningful?  i ran into this last week in showing an
entire class how to download and configure systemtap onto an FC6
system and, without exception, they all got that error despite the
fact that their current version of elfutils is 0.126.

  if the configuration step is truly complaining about a missing
"-devel" package, can it at least say so accurately?  thanks.

rday
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