Re: Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of @MKDIR_P@

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 23/09/09 01:58 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> 
>> On 31/08/09 09:54 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> Getting gnulib to build natively on Windows was a bit difficult, "make"
>>> appears to break when trying to CreateProcess on /usr/bin/mkdir which
>>> doesn't exist as a binary.  How about this patch?  It allows users to
>>> specify the mkdir command when invoking 'make'.
>>>
>>> The patch seems generally to be the Right Thing, but maybe there are
>>> other ways to handle the missing mkdir issue on Windows?
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just updated gnulib in my project (nagios-plugins) and now to get a
>> successful make I need to do a
>>
>> make MKDIR_P="mkdir -p"
>>
>> If there something I'm missing here?
>>
>> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
>> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
> 
> That is because your version of automake is so old.
> Use a newer one, if possible, preferably the latest: automake-1.11

I had the feeling that automake >=1.10 would fix this, though at the
same time it looked like the code was supposed to somehow work around it
(I'm still at lost with automake macros...)

Thanks for the info!

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Thomas
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