Package: automake Version: 1:1.11-1 Hi,
automake and gettext don't like each other :-(( I tried to be conservative with my project requirements and support also gettext version 0.12. With this version and the attached example I get: ./autogen mkdir build cd build make distcheck ... Making install in po make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/helloWorld/build/helloworld-0.1/_build/po' /bin/sh @MKINSTALLDIRS@ /tmp/helloWorld/build/helloworld-0.1/_inst/share /bin/sh: Can't open @MKINSTALLDIRS@ make[2]: *** [install-data-yes] Fehler 2 If I change AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.12) to contain 0.15 it works. My problem is that I found the announcement "Automake 1.7b uploaded (beta for Automake 1.8)" http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2003-11/msg00049.html (where can I *easily* find newer announcemets)? which explicitly states: "Gettext 1.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree." It says that $(mkinstalldirs) will be defined and since this uses MKINSTALLDIRS it should work. When did the gettext support of 0.12 stopped? Searching /usr/share/doc/automake/changelog.gz for mkinstalldirs or gettext doesn't reveals anything. The same is true for http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html. So either update the documentation or fix this nasty bug. I work around it by using MKINSTALLDIRS=\$\(top_srcdir\)/mkinstalldirs AC_SUBST(MKINSTALLDIRS) in configure.ac. Jens
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