[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#7448) misdetected libraries under mingw

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7448 >

When I try to configure & compile under mingw (i586-mingw32msvc), I get 
the following misdetections:

- NLS tries to configure but fails.  I think this probably happens on 
other systems.  If NLS isn't present shouldn't we compile without it 
automatically?

- ESD support worms its way in.  No doubt this is because I have an 
esd-config program installed globally, and it tells configure that ESD 
is present.  But a simple compilation test would show that neither esd.h 
nor libesd are present.  Our ESD detection is pretty mediocre.

- The gtk2 client is built instead.  No doubt this is exactly the same 
problem as with ESD.  Of course we don't control the detection of the 
GTK libraries, they're handled by an external macro.  We should upgrade 
to the most recent version and/or report the bug to the gtk people.

All in all I have to compile with

   ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --enable-client=win32 
--disable-esd --disable-nls

Surely some of this can be improved.

jason