linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Fix up configure so it finds mkinstalldirs

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Message-ID: <CAJTo0LaOtnQAJrZTo+NK0KbnKtrcXUea6x-sRF8491-pQoqWsA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:38:33 +0100
From:	"Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@...el.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix up configure so it finds mkinstalldirs

On 10 July 2014 05:19, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> As an object lesson in why autoreconf is fundamentally unsafe, the
> newer version of nls.m4 no longer handles @MKINSTALLDIRS@.  So add
> this back, since our Makefiles depend on it.

MKINSTALLDIRS is basically an implementation detail of the gettext
macros, it's best to add AC_PROG_MKDIR_P to configure.ac and use
$(MKDIR_P) instead.

I actually have a patch for this still from when I was removing all
generated files from git, I'll sent it to the list.

Ross
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