Re: GNU Automake 1.12.1 released

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Diego.

On 07/06/2012 12:10 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il 05/07/2012 11:26, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto:
>> How so?  Removal of $(mkdir_p) is only planned for Automake 1.13, that is
>> still unreleased.
> 
> Ehm Stefano, that's definitely not the case, I've been hitting that
> issue in Gentoo in many packages.
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=automake-1.12
> 
> mkdir_p is gone in automake-1.12.1 for what we're concerned — I also
> listed it in the 1.12 instead of "planned for 1.13" in my own guide
> http://goo.gl/bda6l as I thought it was intentional.
> 
Ouch, I can reproduce this :-/  The issue is that the call to
AM_PROG_MKDIR_P in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE has been substituted by a
call to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P, which doesn't define $(mkdir_p).  This
was an unintended regression.

I will soon push the attached patches to take care of the problem.
Note that they only re-introduce the $(mkdir_p) variable (because
is very easy to do so), but not the @mkdir_p@ substitution.  Anyone
knows if this can create problems in practice?

At this point, I plan to release Automake 1.12.2 in a week or so,
so that the packages affected the $(mkdir_p) regression should be
buildable again.

Thanks,
  Stefano

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