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

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 17 June 2001 03:52, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
> > > 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...
>
> I found the relevant email at last...
> (http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-199811/msg00194.html)
>
> ---
> VASC @ IST

This one and it's reply seem to be relevant
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/autoconf/1999-01/msg00009.html

But there are 500 lines of ugly shell/autoconf code in freeciv to do the 
completely standard thing of detecting X. It must be possible to do it better!

-Thue