Re: Bug#340224: gettext: Uses obsolete mkinstalldirs (fwd)

[Roger Leigh]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Package: gettext
>> Version: 0.14.5-2
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> Automake has obsoleted the use of 'mkinstalldirs', but this is still
>> installed by autopoint, and is still used by po/Makefile.in.in.
>> 
>> Automake defines a macro, AM_PROG_MKDIR_P, to create $(mkdir_p), to
>> replace $(mkinstalldirs).  If AM_GNU_GETTEXT could use this (or its
>> own copy internally), gettext would use the same mkinstalldirs
>> implementation as the automake-generated Makefiles, which would
>> allow the total removal of mkinstalldirs from projects using both
>> automake and gettext, and make such projects self-consistent
>> internally.
>
> What is the actual misfeature (bug) that you are noticing?

None specifically.  I was having problems with mkinstalldirs failing
and came across this while investigating the bug, but it's not bug in
itself.  I filed the bug just as a reminder that it hadn't been done
yet.

> The change that you ask for is planned, but not for the immediate future.

OK.

> automake's $(mkdir_p) is working since automake-1.8.1 only, which was
> released less than 2 years ago. The world has plenty of Linux installations
> from 3 years ago, such as SuSE Linux 9.0, which ships with automake-1.7.6.
> IMO it causes less trouble with the installed user base if gettext waits
> one more while year assuming everyone has automake 1.8.1 or newer.

That sounds perfectly reasonable.  I look forward to seeing it in a
year!


Thanks,
Roger

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