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

[James Lopeman]

I do not know enough about automess to comment on this other then I apreciate 
the feedback ( and patches even more ) from a distro. 

Have you considered packaging jxclient? At this time it is the most advanced 
client.

Meflin

On Saturday, December 03, 2011 04:27:55 PM David McIlwraith wrote:
> 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 warning), and the included 'aclocal.m4' is out-of-date [if autoconf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
> 
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