Re: Bug#435798: gettext: Missing @MKINSTALLDIRS@ substitution in the autotools (fwd)

[Emmanuel Fleury]

Hi,

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
>> I received this from the Debian bug system:
> 
> This is not enough information. It's impossible to analyze it with so
> little information. Can you ask for a complete tarball, and then look
> at the *.m4 files, aclocal.m4 files, configure files, config.status files,
> configure.log files, Makefiles etc.? It doesn't require a gettext maintainer
> to analyze this. Standard autoconf / automake knowledge is sufficient.

Yes, I'm sorry for that I did try to collect as much information as I
could but still I can't locate the exact cause of this problem.

The best way to get it is to go through the following:

1) Get the sources of Bless (http://home.gna.org/bless/):
http://download.gna.org/bless/bless-0.5.2.tar.gz

2) If you get a Debian unstable installed, just do:
apt-get build-dep bless

3) Unpack the archive, ./configure, make

And you should run into the problem. I tried it on several platforms
(x86, amd64) but only on Debian systems. At least it was 100%
reproducible (but I might have missed something).

Regards
-- 
Emmanuel Fleury

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