On 07/06/2012 01:10 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il 06/07/2012 10:26, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: >> I will soon push the attached patches to take care of the problem. >> Note that they only re-introduce the $(mkdir_p) variable (because >> is very easy to do so), but not the @mkdir_p@ substitution. Anyone >> knows if this can create problems in practice? > > I've seen a couple of packages that did use @mkdir_p@. > If such packages don't exceed the 10% of the mkdir_p user base, I'm willing to let them suffer :-)
> Honestly for what > concerns Gentoo I think we're better off without either $(mkdir_p) and > @mkdir_p@ and get them updated (of course the same does not apply for > non-distribution contexts). > > What is causing us headaches are the portability warnings and the > excessive use of -Werror in projects, but that's a different story (for > what it's worth, the latest gettext release relies on AM_PROG_MKDIR_P > still, which is causing warnings and thus failures with -Werror). > I know, that has been reported already: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2012-04/msg00018.html> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2012-06/msg00012.html> Regards, Stefano
