Re: gettext: prepare Makefile.in.in for next Automake version

[Bruno Haible]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> The next Automake version (1.10) will make use of Autoconf-2.60's macro
> AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in the macro AM_PROG_MKDIR_P, thus `$(mkdir_p)' may be
> expressed in terms of `$(MKDIR_P)'.
> ...
> gettext-runtime/po: 
> 2006-08-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * Makefile.in.in (MKDIR_P): New variable.  Needed by $(mkdir_p)
>       with Automake-1.10.
> 
> gettext-tools/po:
> 2006-08-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * Makefile.in.in (MKDIR_P): New variable.  Needed by $(mkdir_p)
>       with Automake-1.10.
> 

Thanks, I applied your patch. Thanks also for thinking ahead.

> it is likely to generate a share of bug reports when Automake-1.10 is
> released before the next Gettext release.

Let's discuss the next release dates privately.

> Another possibility would be 
> to back out the relevant change of AM_PROG_MKDIR_P for Automake-1.10;
> what do you think?

That's not needed. Gettext can really afford to have more frequent
releases than once a year.

Bruno