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

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner wrote:

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

Actually, it depends on which version of automake you have
installed, since automake contains aclocal, and the system
files for aclocal (eg /usr/share/aclocal/init.m4 for me)
determine how the offending lines will be in the generated
aclocal.m4.

Freeciv nominally uses automake-1.4 and autoconf-2.13, which
are supposed to go together.  If you have say automake-1.3 
and autoconf-2.12, you may be able to get things working 
just by manually running 'aclocal' in your freeciv source 
tree.  In that case an updated autoconf "require" may not 
really be necessary...

-- David