Re: automake does not install mkinstalldirs?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Stephane,

* Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote on Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:45:05AM CET:
> "automake --add-missing" installs what I want except mkinstalldirs:
[...]
> Of course, I can do a symlink myself but I wonder why does automake
> ignores this file?

Quoting `(automake.info)Auxiliary Programs':

| `mkinstalldirs'
|      This script used to be a wrapper around `mkdir -p', which is not
|      portable.  Now we prefer to use `install-sh -d' when configure
|      finds that `mkdir -p' does not work, this makes one less script to
|      distribute.
| 
|      For backward compatibility `mkinstalldirs' is still used and
|      distributed when `automake' finds it in a package.  But it is no
|      longer installed automatically, and it should be safe to remove it.

If you use Automake 1.10, use $(MKDIR_P) which will be `install-sh -d'
if needed.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf