[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Autoconf 2.12 breaks current builds (PR#283)

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Joseph Beckenbach <jrb3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> BeOS port of autoconf is 2.12, direct from GNU.  As provided, configure.in and
> aclocal.m4 together define PACKAGE and VERSION as 1, not strings.  Culprit is
> aclocal.m4, which uses the autoconf-2.13 three-argument variant of
> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to generate the #define PACKAGE and #define VERSION lines. 
> 2.12 accepts only two-argument version.
> 
> Patch either with
>    diff -r1.91 configure.in
> to force roll-forward to autoconf-2.13, where three-argument is legal, or
>    diff -r1.12 aclocal.m4
> to return to the two-argument form which is accepted in 2.12.

Since aclocal.m4 is actually autogenerated (from configure.in
and acinclude.m4 iirc), I suggest we use the former.

-- David