On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:28:53PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > it's implicit called through AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, so no explicit > reference there. Try autoconf --trace=AC_PROG_MKDIR_P to see where > it comes from :-)
Nice to learn :-) > Perhaps we should shelve this part and rather make sure that we get > mutt's gettext into shape, aka. see if the local patches are still > needed with newer gettext versions - and then see to updating these > scripts to recent versions... Sounds like a good plan. > Another issue to consider is the inclusion/updating policy for the > get* scripts. Currently, we are including (in code and repository) > the full code. The advantage is that the maintainer doesn't have to > care, disadvantages are that it entails manual maintenance overhead > and can cause m4/, po/ and intl/ stuff to be updated and cause > half-bogus "M)odified" status in hg status and inadvertent commits. > OTOH, with some core committers not using the latest gettext > version, it seems more of a requirement to keep copies in the repo. My bias is to keep files in the repo so I can autoreconf without having to have *ize around - but different projects have different philosophies so I can't say! Cheers, Patrick
