[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Compaq Tru64 Unix Alpha platform - Buildingfreeciv

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:34:09PM +0200, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> > This is a proof of concept patch, with this patch the old readline
> > library
> > compile well and also the new readline compile well.
> > I've chosen to implement this, adding a new define in acconfig.h
> > HAVE_NEWREADLINE, and making the appropriate tests into configure.in
> > (I hope to have done a good job, but it is my first hacking on configure
> > scripts, so be careful where reviewing this).
> > At the end I've patched server/stdinhand.h and server/stdinhand.c,
> > adding the necessary nested #ifdef and #ifndef and by creating a
> > macro to do the substitution of rl_completion_matches for us.
> ...
> > P.S. With some effort and time, I can compile (or try to compile)
> > freeciv,
> > on this set of os/architecture.
> 
> I've reworked the patches so that they work also with autoconf 2.52, and
> moved readline detection to m4/readline.m4 so that configure.[in|ac] can
> share this code. Seems to work. It would be very nice if you could test
> this patch on the platforms you mentioned.
> 
> Patch attached.

Great work to you Davide and Per. Now freeciv supports readline
(4.1-5) in my computer.

Changes:
 - updated INSTALL
 - changed ifndef to ifdef

Per: can you apply it? I don't know what to write expect "readline
detection cleanup".

        Raimar

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