[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Cleaning up configure.in

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, David Pfitzner wrote:

> Thue <thue@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > In the quest to make autoconf 2.50 work I have replaced the use of 
> > FC_CHECK_X_LIB with AC_CHECK_LIB.
> > It looks as if they were doing some tricks to get a specific order of libs 
> > to the linker, but naively using AC_CHECK_LIB seems to work fine.
> > 
> > People should consider testing this. It works for me :).
> > 
> > Note that this part of the code is very, very old, so there is not 
> > neccesarily a higher mening with it. :)
> 
> On the other hand there was certainly some meaning to it at the time,
> because I recall some effort went into trying to get it to do the
> right thing on some troublesome systems (or certain compliers?).  
> So I'd be concerned about changing this without either some reasonable
> understanding of the details (which I don't remember), or fairly 
> widespread testing...

(http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-199811/msg00305.html)

I guess we can ask Greg to see if he remembers why he made that macro.


Sat Nov 14 17:48:09 PST 1998  David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

freeciv acinclude.m4 Makefile.am acconfig.h configure.in

Attempt at improving detection of X11 libraries.  Based on patches by
Markus Linnala and Greg Wooledge.

Maybe this was when the FC_CHECK_X_LIB macro was added?

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa