[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Compilation Problems

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 04:02:16PM +0200, Per I Mathisen wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> > After downloading Apr 19 CVS I got the below error messages.
> 
> > I checks disabled
> 
> Does it say exactly this or did you introduce typos here?
> 
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in 
> > library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in 
> > library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in 
> > library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in 
> > library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_LC_MESSAGES' not found in library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in 
> > library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in 
> > library
> > aclocal: configure.in: 0: macro `AM_LC_MESSAGES' not found in library
> 
> This is very strange. What kind of OS / version do you use? These should
> be in /usr/share/aclocal by default.

What makes you think that?

In general, aclocal pulls many things from m4 macros contributed by
individual software packages - for Freeciv, GNU gettext, GTK, and Imlib.

> Since they obviously aren't, I'm
> attaching them to this mail. Stuff them in m4/ and try to compile again.
> They should probably be distributed along with freeciv, and should be
> committed to cvs too.

Only if users of Freeciv CVS must be able to use aclocal without problems.

> I've tested compilation (with patch and --disable-nls and
> --enable-client=no) on my Debian testing box, on Cygwin under Windows XP,
> and on a RedHat box. All three work flawlessly with the new patch.

I still have to test it ...

> But compilation of the client on a RedHat box gives me massive amount of
> errors like this (for many different functions and files):
> 
> tilespec.o: In function `tilespec_setup_government':
> /home/homeb/pe/permath/freeciv/client/tilespec.c:801: multiple definition
> of `tilespec_setup_government'
> 
> Any idea for that one?

Guess: is a file being included twice?

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Reinier