[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Bug report (PR#1375)

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@xxxxxxxx>]

* Per I Mathisen (per@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> RedHat seem to be dragging their feet. I believe the other distros have
> gone over to 2.52 some time ago already. Debian ships with both versions,
> and automagically uses the right version (I don't know how).
> 

On Mandrake 8.2, I've got:
schmitta@alan-schm1p:~> rpm -qa | grep autoconf
autoconf-2.13-11mdk
autoconf2.5-2.52d-1mdk

so they decided to stick with the old one by default, it seems.

> When I think about it, the right thing to do might be to supply two
> versions of configure.in, say
>       configure.ac-2.13
>       configure.ac-2.52
> and then let autogen.sh use the one that works (or maybe supply an
> autogen.sh-2.52 too). I can quickly make a version for 2.52 as long as
> nobody expects it work for the Xaw client on non-linux architectures
> (which is where all the pain is).
>

For enlightenment, we provide both configure.in and configure.ac. The
later is ignore by autoconf 2.13 and the former is ignored by autoconf
2.52 since configure.ac is there ... I don't know if it's the best
solution but it works.

Alan

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