Re: Building GRUB2: autogen.sh error msg (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P)

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2009, 19:27 -0800 schrieb Dr. Dov Bulka:
> I downloaded GRUB2 from the gnu ftp site. cd to the source directory
> and
> ran "./autogen.sh"   I got the error message below:
> 
> configure.ac:147 error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow
>      See the Autoconf documentation
> 
> Am I running an obsolete autoconf? (version 2.59 should be okay
> according to 
> the documentation in file INSTALL)
> 
> [...]
> GNU Autoconf 2.59
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dov

autoconf's NEWS says it was added with 2.59d
I change that now in our NEWS and configure.ac
But with the release tarballs you shouldn't need to run it.
Seems like I need to make that clear in INSTALL.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer