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Re: MKDIR_P vs. mkdir_p and automake versions
From: |
Ralf Corsepius |
Subject: |
Re: MKDIR_P vs. mkdir_p and automake versions |
Date: |
Wed, 14 May 2008 05:43:35 +0200 |
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 07:55 -0400, David Bruce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:37:16 am Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:22 -0400, David Bruce wrote:
> > > > "MKDIR_P" is recommended but requires automake-1.10 or higher. [...]
> > > > is there an acceptable workaround?
> >
> > forgive me stating the obvious, but the workaround is to use
> > $(mkdir_p). It will work in Automake 1.10.x, perhaps even longer.
>
> Well, of course. What I meant was that I wanted the code in the svn
> repository
> to be as "correct" as possible, so I used MKDIR_P. My thought was whether
> there was some sort of autotools conditional that would allow this to work
> with automake 1.9 (i.e. if automake version < 1.10, define "MKDIR_P" to
> be "mkdir_p").
>
> It seems like anyone working on my project just needs to use AM 1.10 or
> higher.
>From my experience, this is the only viable approach. It's what I do.
Trying to stay "backward compatible" in longer terms only leads to
code-rot and doesn't really help active projects.
Ralf