Hi, Commit v1.11-759-g368f1c4 (git describe --contain v1.11-759-g368f1c4 says it is v1.11.3b~3^2~1) introduced a regression. GNU automake used to support shell commands in installation directories, but it seems to be inadvertently broken now because of the change in shell quoting. In 3 of 24 places where MKDIR_P commands are generated, automake uses single quotes, while in other 21 places it still uses double quotes:
$ git grep "^[[:space:]]*\$(MKDIR_P) '" v1.11-759-g368f1c4^:lib | wc -l 0 $ git grep "^[[:space:]]*\$(MKDIR_P) '" v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/data.am: $(MKDIR_P) '$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)' || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/libs.am: $(MKDIR_P) '$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)' || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/ltlib.am: $(MKDIR_P) '$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)' || exit 1; \ $ git grep "^[[:space:]]*\$(MKDIR_P) \"" v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/data.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/data.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)/$$dir"; }; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/java.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)"; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/libs.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/libs.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)/$$dir"; }; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/lisp.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/ltlib.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/ltlib.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)/$$dir"; }; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/mans.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(man%SECTION%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/mans.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(man%SECTION%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/progs.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/python.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/python.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/python.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)/$$dir"; }; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/scripts.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(%NDIR%dir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/texinfos.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(dvidir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/texinfos.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/texinfos.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$f" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/texinfos.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(infodir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/texinfos.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(pdfdir)" || exit 1; \ v1.11-759-g368f1c4:lib:am/texinfos.am: $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(psdir)" || exit 1; \ The patch containing the fix with test case will follow shortly. -- ldv
