gettext vs automake

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:11:55PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:

> twaugh at redhat.com (Tim Waugh) writes:
> 
> >> > The automake we have in Fedora development no longer provides
> >> > mkinstalldirs,
> > ...
> > To see a concrete example of it going wrong, try to ./bootstrap;
> > ./configure; make distcheck this:
> >
> > http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/eggcups/eggcups-0.0.4.tar.bz2
> 
> What is the problem there? The suggested steps are succeeding here.

Ah, so they are -- it's because mkinstalldirs is in the tarball (I had
to 'make distcheck' on a Fedora Core 1 machine).  If you remove it
first, it will not be created during bootstrap, and you will see the
problem. (I saw this by doing a CVS export.)

[...]
Making install in po
make[2]: Entering directory
`/tmp/tim/eggcups-0.0.4/eggcups-0.0.4/_build/po'
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs
/tmp/tim/eggcups-0.0.4/eggcups-0.0.4/_inst/share
../../mkinstalldirs: ../../mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory

Tim.
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