On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 07:55 -0400, David Bruce wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:37:16 am 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. > > Well, of course. What I meant was that I wanted the code in the svn > repository > to be as "correct" as possible, so I used MKDIR_P. My thought was whether > there was some sort of autotools conditional that would allow this to work > with automake 1.9 (i.e. if automake version < 1.10, define "MKDIR_P" to > be "mkdir_p"). > > It seems like anyone working on my project just needs to use AM 1.10 or > higher. >From my experience, this is the only viable approach. It's what I do.
Trying to stay "backward compatible" in longer terms only leads to code-rot and doesn't really help active projects. Ralf
