Re: [bug-gnulib] AM_MKINSTALLDIRS obsolete?

[Derek Price]

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Bruno Haible wrote:

| an autoconf version from 2.50 to 2.57. You might consider autoconf
| 2.57 as being "out of date". Other packages still use it. Why
| should gettext break them if it can be avoided?


I agree - I just didn't know when the changes took place.  Thanks.

|> Also, as near as I can tell, despite causing $(MKINSTALLDIRS) to
|> be defined in my Makefiles, $(MKINSTALLDIRS) is never referenced
|> in any targets.
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| @MKINSTALLDIRS@ is used by po/Makefile.in.in.


So, CVS hasn't fully imported gettext yet and therefore has no po
directory, but if it had and did, it looks like my current, supported
(I believe, based on your earlier comments) combination of autotools,
Autoconf 2.59 & Automake 1.9.5, *does not* install and ship
mkinstalldirs automatically even though these m4 macros are called and
the MKINSTALLDIRS make macro is defined by the subsequent configure
run.  So, until I upgrade to an Automake 1.10+, which understands the
AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro, I would need to install mkinstalldirs in my
build-aux dir by hand and perhaps include it in an EXTRA_DIST variable
somewhere?

What is wrong with relying on Automake to fill the $(mkinstalldirs)
macro and using that in po/Makefile.in.in?

Regards,

Derek
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