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Re: Use "$(MKDIR_P) sys", not race-prone "test -d sys || mkdir sys".


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: Use "$(MKDIR_P) sys", not race-prone "test -d sys || mkdir sys".
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:09:50 +0100 (MET)
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James Youngman wrote:
> My generated aclocal.m4 file wants to substiture mkdir_p (courtesy of
> AM_PROG_MKDIR_P) but doesn't define AC_PROG_MKDIR_P.   Nevertheless my
> gnulib-common.m4 file is indeed at serial 2 and the gl_INIT in
> gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4 does indeed invoke AC_PROG_MKDIR_P.

Huh? gnulib-common.m4 is not supposed to pull in automake's mkdirp.m4
(because 'aclocal' follows only the executed branches of m4_ifdef, not
all branches, since automake-1.8 or so). But AM_INIT should pull in
automake's mkdirp.m4. No??

Bruno






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