[crossfire] [PATCH 0/1] GTK 2+ client: fix for locale dir. reference in Makefile.am; other autotools issues

[David McIlwraith]

Ouch -- Sorry for the duplicate messages! Accidental resend.

Regards,
- David McIlwraith <archaios at archaios.net>

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:24 AM, David McIlwraith <2c93e8f1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As of the newest trunk svn version (and prior versions), the locale
> directory is not properly referenced in 'gtk-v2/src/Makefile.am',
> leading to "$prefix/locale" (via an unset "$(DATADIRNAME), which
> should be "$datadir") being used instead of "$prefix/$datadir/locale"
> (noting that "$localedir", I believe, is the correct setting, and
> succeeds in my tests; see patch below), even though NLS is currently
> not employed. I propose the patch in the next message.
>
> As a secondary issue, as use of 'autogen.sh' is deprecated (per
> warning), and the included 'aclocal.m4' is out-of-date [if autoconf
> 2.61 is not used], I must advise that the package fails to build on
> (at least) the current ArchLinux distribution via use of 'autoreconf'
> alone, as 'utils/{config.guess,config.sub,install-sh,missing}' are not
> provided.
>
> The commands:
>
> aclocal
> automake --add-missing [to add the missing utils/ files]
> autoreconf
>
> are necessary to produce a working package. I am not sure if the
> latter problem is regarded as a major issue at this point or not, but
> the locale directory reference is definitely not correct with current
> autotools versions.
>
> Regards,
> - David McIlwraith <archaios at archaios.net>
> ArchLinux AUR 'crossfire-client' / 'crossfire-client-svn' package maintainer