[Freeciv-Dev] Re: autoconf problems

[Justin Moore <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > I am using Red Hat 7.2.  Anyone know why this is happening?
>
> RH 7.0 with autoconf-2.13-9 and automake-1.4-8 works.

   I ran into this problem, too, when using the RH 7.2 beta (roswell).
IIRC, it's because some of the constructs used in the configure.* stuff is
deprecated by the newer versions of auto*, and the backwards compatibility
is either broken or non-existent.  I don't remember if the constructs
required by the newer auto* also work with the older versions.  I can
fiddle with this when I get home tonight.

-jdm

Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0129
Email:  justin@xxxxxxxxxxx