[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6177)

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post wrote:
> freeciv-1.14.1-beta1 fails the autogen.sh step on my box; here is the
> literal output:
> 
> <PRE>
> % autogen.sh                  + checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... found 
> 2.57, ok.
> + checking for automake >= 1.4 ... found 1.7.6, ok.
> + checking for xgettext >= 0.10.36 ... found 0.11.1, ok.
> + checking for msgfmt >= 0.10.36 ... found 0.11.1, ok.
> + using new autoconf configuration (use --disable-autoconf2.52 to use 
> old)
> + creating acinclude.m4
> + running aclocal ...
> + running autoheader ... 
> configure.ac:147: warning: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX is m4_require'd but is 
> not m4_defun'd
> configure.ac:147: warning: AC_LIB_RPATH is m4_require'd but is not 
> m4_defun'd
> + running autoconf ... 
> configure:4844: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_PREPARE_PREFIX
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
> m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure:4845: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_RPATH
> configure:4850: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY
> configure:5118: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_APPENDTOVAR
> 
> autoconf failed
> </PRE>
> OS is SunOS 5.7.
> 
> The offending variable is defined in m4/iconf.m4.
> On Per's suggestion I replaced it with the version from the stable 
> branch, and the problem went away.

You shouldn't be running autogen.sh on the beta release.  It already has 
configure generated.

Not that this shouldn't be fixed...

jason