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

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 23/09/09 02:44 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Which modules do you use, and what error message did you get?  There may
> be a AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_MKDIR_P]) missing somewhere in gnulib's files.
> 
>> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
>> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6

This is what originally tipped me:
./build-aux/po/Makefile.in.in:39:# In automake >= 1.10, @mkdir_p@ is
derived from ${MKDIR_P}, which is defined

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Thomas