[Freeciv-Dev] Re: autoconf problems

[Mike Kaufman <mkaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:23:55PM -0500, Jason Short wrote:
> I was trying to add a new file, so I have to run automake and autoconf. 
>   This has worked for me before; however now I get:
> 
> configure.in:272: error: AC_LANG: unknown language:
> aclang.m4:124: _AC_LANG_SET is expanded from...
> aclang.m4:133: AC_LANG is expanded from...
> ./aclocal.m4:77: FC_CHECK_X_LIB is expanded from...
> configure.in:272: the top level
> 
> on running autoconf.
>

somebody contacted me about a problem like this for civworld.
I didn't save the exchange it seems, but I recall that it was the
autoconf on the redhat box that was the problem. He didn't have enough
knowledge to fix the problem. He just didn't have that problem on a
non-redhat box.

-mike
 
> I am using Red Hat 7.2.  Anyone know why this is happening?
> 
> jason