Re: [PATCH 0 of 2] minor build and INSTALL fixes

["Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

Am 07.07.2009, 13:56 Uhr, schrieb Rocco Rutte <pdmef@xxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
>
> * Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Patch 1 removes a file from the repo that is installed by autoreconf
> > as part of prepare.
>
> Not for me. Neither on OS X nor on Debian squeeze. On OSX I have
> autoconf 2.63 and automake 1.10.2, and on Debian 2.63/1.9.6.

Hi Rocco,

then you're lucky: Your automake version is new enough so that it uses  
"install-sh -d" instead, and mkinstalldirs is no longer needed (install-sh  
is also installed by automake).

I've emailed a rebased version of this PATCH to this list.

This is pasted from automake.info as of 1.10.1:

|`mkinstalldirs'
|     This script used to be a wrapper around `mkdir -p', which is not
|     portable.  Now we prefer to use `install-sh -d' when configure
|     finds that `mkdir -p' does not work, this makes one less script to
|     distribute.
|
|     For backward compatibility `mkinstalldirs' is still used and
|     distributed when `automake' finds it in a package.  But it is no
|     longer installed automatically, and it should be safe to remove it.

> > Patch 2 updates the VPATH information in INSTALL. I have been using
> > VPATH (i. e. mkdir build ; cd build ; ../configure ...) for quite a
> > while with the repository versions. No ill effects observed with a
> > recent GNU make.
>
> Queued, thanks.

Thanks.

--
Matthias Andree