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Re: [gettext] Don't add mkinstalldirs to EXTRA_DIST
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
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Re: [gettext] Don't add mkinstalldirs to EXTRA_DIST |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:34:26 +0200 |
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>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
Stepan> Hello,
Stepan> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:40:25PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> But as far as I know, some future releases of automake will not install
>> mkinstalldirs any more - install-sh shall be used instead.
Stepan> indeed, Automake >= 1.8 doesn't use mkinstalldirs internally.
It's a tad subtler: automake still uses, distributes, and updates
mkinstalldirs if the file exists in your tree, but it will
neither install it nor use it otherwise. So if nothing else is
using mkinstalldirs in your tree, you can safely "rm mkinstalldirs".
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz