Re: aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Michael,

* Michael Abbott wrote on Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:22:13AM CET:
> 
> I'm currently having a shot at building libguile via MinGW / msys.  Their
> source distribution is composed of .tar.bz2, a patch and a shell script to
> apply the patch and reconfigure / build.
> 
> When "autoreconf -f -v -i" gets called, I get:
>     aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
[...]
> 
> And "automake --version" says 1.7.1 (which appears to be quite old?).

Yes, I would just retry with a newer version.  Install Automake 1.10.
If you're a newcomer, then it's best to install all of Autoconf,
Automake, and Libtool under the same prefix.

Cheers,
Ralf