[Freeciv-Dev] Re: autoconf2.5x patch

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have tried the patch now. 
There are some problems with it. 
- The AC_MINGW32 stuff:
  You can check for $host_os=*-mingw32 (like it is recommended in the
  autoconf doc) but then 
  export CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" 
  ./configure
  does not configure the win32 stuff from a cygwin bash.
  cross compiling will still work in the usual way (with that check).
  The old AC_MINGW32 check checks if $CC defines something like
  __MINGW32__. 
  The problem can be solved if CC="$CC -mno-cygwin" is set if
  $host_os=*cygwin* but that breaks compiling windows+X stuff.
  Of course, you can give a long line to configure. But I don't like
  doing that for a very ordinary thing.
- some more AC_SUBST() must be inserted (at least for CFLAGS, LDFLAGS)
  not only for the win32 stuff. So the patch has to be checked very intensively
- how to set localedir to a relative path?
  With autoconf2.13 you can say --prefix=. 
  Then I usually do things like make DESTDIR=something install  
  Is there a cleaner way to do it?

Will be autoconf a requirement for the next release?
AFAIK make dist will generate these auto-generated files.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade