Re: MKDIR_P discovered by configure but not substituted in the Makefile

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> According to James Youngman on 2/20/2010 5:01 PM:
>> $ for p in automake autoconf ; do $p --version; done
>> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
>
> There's your problem.  It's time for an upgrade, particularly since all
> released versions of automake except 1.10.3 and 1.11.1 have a security
> vulnerability.  Meanwhile, by updating automake, the use of MKDIR_P will
> start working for you.

Gnulib's DEPENDENCIES says automake 1.9.6 is fine.  I think Bruno's
workaround is better than incrementing the required minimum version, if
this problem is the only reason why automake > 1.9.6 would be required
by gnulib.

/Simon