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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/24/2009 08:42 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
> > Jim Meyering<address@hidden>  writes:
> >
> > > > 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
> >
> > Gnulib's DEPENDENCIES says 1.9.6 or later is ok.  What features of newer
> > automake releases are required by gnulib?
>
> Hard to tell without having diagnosed his problem.  Maybe none.
> IMHO, automake-1.9.6 is not just a little bit too old,
> but prohibitively old, now.
>
> Would anyone object to increasing the minimum to automake-1.10?

Fine.  After 1.7 the backwards compatibility of automake has improved 
greatly.

However, even though GCC and GDB are now using 2.64, I would keep 2.59 
as the minimum Autoconf requirement.

Paolo