Hello,
I have a make rule that essentially does
test/foo/foo.tar.gz:
cd test/foo && $(MKDIR_P) m4 && ...
This has worked for long time since MKDIR_P is typically defined as
'mkdir -p'. However, tonight I got a bug report and the problem turned
out to be that MKDIR_P was defined as 'build-aux/install-sh -c -d' which
of course does not work after the 'cd'. I've switched order now so I
first create directories and then cd down in desired directory. But
would it make sense to defined MKDIR_P with absolute path instead, i.e.,
'$(abs_top_srcdir)/build-aux/install-sh -c -d' just to avoid these kind
of problems that difficult to find as mkdir -p is typically available on
machines on which I develop.
Cheers,
Peter
