Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch seem to cause plenty of build failures like this:
Hi Simon,
Thanks for the report.
What version of autoconf are you using on that system?
I tried to reproduce the failure like this:
cd /tmp
rm -rf x
/gnulib/gnulib-tool --dir x --with-tests --create-testdir gettime
but it worked fine for me.
I tried with automake-1.10 and each of autoconf-2.60, 2.61, and 2.61a.
You may be using a bad version of sed.
Please verify the versions of sed, m4, and automake, too.
If you built autoconf with a version of m4 older than 1.4.4,
that can cause trouble, too, though I don't know if it could
cause what you're seeing.
What does this output?
grep MKDIR_P config.status
I get this:
MKDIR_P='/bin/mkdir -p'
ac_MKDIR_P=$MKDIR_P
case $MKDIR_P in
*/*) ac_MKDIR_P=$ac_top_build_prefix$MKDIR_P ;;
s&@MKDIR_P@&$ac_MKDIR_P&;t t
If you see the same (modulo the precise path for mkdir), then try
tracing config.status to see why the sed substitution doesn't work:
bash -x config.status
...
> http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/log-200701211146617069000.txt
>
> It seems like $(MKDIR_P) is empty. The configure.ac does contain:
>
> AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
>
> However, it doesn't seem like it is getting substituted into the
> Makefile:
>
> dopio:/data/gnulib/build/gettime# grep MKDIR gllib/*
> gllib/Makefile: $(MKDIR_P) sys
> gllib/Makefile.am: $(MKDIR_P) sys
> gllib/Makefile.in: $(MKDIR_P) sys
> dopio:/data/gnulib/build/gettime#
Ahh... this is it.
Something is wrong with your version of automake.
I get this:
$ grep MKDIR_P Makefile.in
MKDIR_P = @MKDIR_P@
*/*) $(MKDIR_P) `echo "$$dist_files" | \
$(MKDIR_P) sys
Notice that I have the definition of MKDIR_P and you don't.
