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[bug-diffutils] bug#24331: bug#24331: mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.
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Santiago Vila |
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[bug-diffutils] bug#24331: bug#24331: mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.in.in |
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Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:55:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 09:41:22AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> >So, to be sure: Would somebody know why the patch was required in
> >diffutils-3.3 and not anymore in diffutils-3.5?
>
> The patch apparently works around a problem where Automake doesn't AC_SUBST
> for mkdir_p. There was some talk of Automake removing support for mkdir_p
> (it's still listed as deprecated in the man page). Perhaps Debian Automake
> removed mkdir_p support at some point, and then reverted the removal? That
> would explain why you don't need the patch any more.
There must be some other reason. The Debian diffutils package does not
run autoreconf before compiling the package, as I still trust you GNU
people to provide a sane configure script.
Thanks.