On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:37 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hello, > > > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:22 -0400, David Bruce wrote: > > > "MKDIR_P" is recommended but requires automake-1.10 or higher. [...] > > > is there an acceptable workaround? > > forgive me stating the obvious, but the workaround is to use > $(mkdir_p). It will work in Automake 1.10.x, perhaps even longer. This would be the "stay backwards-compatible" way.
It's an option to projects wanting to keep compatible with outdated versions of automake. It will re-haunt them at the future point, once automake decides to kill mkdir_p. Ralf
