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

[David McIlwraith]

Hi,

I will have a look shortly re: jxclient. Thank you for the prompt feedback :-)

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

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM, James Lopeman <meflin at meflin.net> wrote:
> 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 warning), and the included 'aclocal.m4' is out-of-date [if autoconf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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