Re: [Tuxnes-devel] Fwd: present but cannot be compiled (Was: I was asked to report this.)

[Jason D. S. <js...@an...>]

Mike Mestnik wrote:
> I hope some one can make sense of this, I'm not an autowhatsit type person.  I know different
> headers need other headers but I thought ./configure was supposed to figure all that ought.  Any
> way it's not high on the list but I think it should be an easy fix.

Recent versions of autoconf try to compile the header as well as simply 
looking at it.  Xshm.h doesn't compile so it fails this test. 
Presumably this happens because other headers are needed to be included 
as well.  This is probably a bug on the part of the authors of the 
headers, but what can you do...

In this particular case it seems to be <X11/Xlib.h> that is missing. 
The attached path will probably work.

Looking at configure.in, I see lots of changes that could/should be made 
to take advantage of more modern autoconfs.  Doing this generally makes 
the tests more complete and the amount of autoconf code smaller.  Is 
there any interest in this?

I should say that I'm no expert on autoconf.  But I have used it a fair 
amount with Freeciv (http://freeciv.org/) and GGZ (http://ggz.sf.net/).

jason