[Freeciv-Dev] Re: quick and dirty autogen.sh patch

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:04:26PM +0200, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > Can you explain the task of libtoolize. What does it take and what
> > files does it produce/update?
> 
> It is a while since I made this patch, and it was a rather quick hack (as
> the subject indicates). If you are serious about including it, I'll sit
> down and have a more thorough look at it.

Please do.

> > Should we take this opportunity and also remove configure? This would
> > mean that we add the autoconf and automake as dependencies for CVS
> > developers.
> 
> If you take out configure, there is no reason to stop there. Makefile,
> Makefile.in and config.h are all generated in the same process.
> 
> There is only one problem with that: We add the ancient autoconf2.13 as
> a dependency, instead of the modern autoconf2.5, so some developers are
> going to get significant problems.
> 
> So I suggest we don't do that, yet.

Question to the freeciv-dev readers: what autoconf to you use?

> I'll give porting to 2.5 a shot after the release. That will require a
> relaxation of the usual quality-of-patch rules, since it will need lots
> and lots of testing by developers to get it exactly right on all the
> various platforms.

        Raimar

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