Re: Use $(MKDIR_P) instead of @MKDIR_P@

[Jim Meyering]

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:

> On 31/08/09 09:54 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Getting gnulib to build natively on Windows was a bit difficult, "make"
>> appears to break when trying to CreateProcess on /usr/bin/mkdir which
>> doesn't exist as a binary.  How about this patch?  It allows users to
>> specify the mkdir command when invoking 'make'.
>>
>> The patch seems generally to be the Right Thing, but maybe there are
>> other ways to handle the missing mkdir issue on Windows?
>
> Hi,
>
> I just updated gnulib in my project (nagios-plugins) and now to get a
> successful make I need to do a
>
> make MKDIR_P="mkdir -p"
>
> If there something I'm missing here?
>
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6

That is because your version of automake is so old.
Use a newer one, if possible, preferably the latest: automake-1.11