Tried to rebuild truevision-0.5.5 from scratch.
1. aclocal can't find the macros called by configure.in because it doesn't know to look in the macros/ directory. Need to add:
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I macros
to the top-level Makefile.am
2. automake1.9 complains that some macros/*.m4 aren't up to modern (stricter) syntax standards. The function-name being defined by an AC_DEFUN needs to be quoted with square brackets:
check-utmp.m4:
-AC_DEFUN(AC_CHECK_UTMP,[
+AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_UTMP],[
gnome-cxx-check.m4:
-AC_DEFUN(GNOME_CHECK_CXX,
+AC_DEFUN([GNOME_CHECK_CXX],
linger.m4:
-AC_DEFUN(AC_STRUCT_LINGER, [
+AC_DEFUN([AC_STRUCT_LINGER], [
3. autoheader-2.60 complains that the use of acconfig.h is "deprecated and discouraged" and suggests a more modern way to accomplish the same thing:
autoheader-2.60: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
autoheader-2.60: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows one to define a template without
autoheader-2.60: WARNING: `acconfig.h':
autoheader-2.60:
autoheader-2.60: WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1,
autoheader-2.60: [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
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sorry but truevision isn't maintained any more... Any new maintainer would be welcome !