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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:25:39 -0500
From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, twoerner@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC e2fsprogs] - replace MKINSTALLDIRS with MKDIR_P for
newer autotools
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:55:20PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> From: Thomas Woerner <twoerner@...hat.com <mailto:twoerner@...hat.com>>
>
> (Thomas was the original author of this patch)
>
> I do not claim to be an autotools guru, hence the RFC.
> RH bugzilla #220715 claims that newer autoconf/automake no longer
> support MKINSTALLDIRS, and the changelog seems to confirm that, as
> does testing. :)
MKINSTALLDIRS is defined in aclocal.m4, so we're good. This patch
isn't necessary, as far as I can tell. Have you actually shown that
with some newer version of autoconf, it produces a configure script
which doesn't define MKINSTALLDIRS? As far as I know e2fsprogs builds
Just Fine, and using autoconf 2.61 isn't a problem.
What version of autoconf are you using that triggers this problem?
(Note that e2fsprogs does not use automake, since automake is a
horrible kludge of backwards non-compatibility and ugliness....)
At some point when we go to a newer version of gettext we may need to
update things, but I'd much rather save that for when we really uplift
gettext and aclocal.m4 all in one go.
For now, I suspect you could drop this patch without any problems,
since we don't use automake, and aclocal.m4 has a version of
AM_MKINSTALLDIRS that will do the right thing.
Regards,
- Ted
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