Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2008-01-29 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:48:34PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Marc, > > Thanks for the report. > > * Marc Espie wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:29:37PM CET: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:25:56PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > > the mkdir -p macro arbit

Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2007-12-28 Thread Marc Espie
And yet another problematic package, jpilot fails to install correctly when built in parallel mode for the same reason. Even if detecting OpenBSD is not easy, I don't understand why this test is hardcoded. In general, most autoconf/automake tests DO set a cache entry, and you can later rely on th

Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2007-12-27 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:25:56PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > the mkdir -p macro arbitrarily restricts itself to GNU mkdir by passing > it a --version. > > This is a bit offensive. On OpenBSD, this particular issue does not exist. > It was fixed 8 years ago, published as OpenB

bug in mkdir -p detection

2007-12-27 Thread Marc Espie
the mkdir -p macro arbitrarily restricts itself to GNU mkdir by passing it a --version. This is a bit offensive. On OpenBSD, this particular issue does not exist. It was fixed 8 years ago, published as OpenBSD 2.4, and all newer versions are not affected. Could we get an OS test and use mkdir on

[PATCH] Repair path of VTEXI with non gnu-makes

2000-12-15 Thread Marc Espie
far as I could tell @VTEXI@ is always intended to be built in the source directory, so the following patch allows it to be correctly built with any make: 2000-12-15 Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * automake.in (handle_texinfo): Make path of $vtexi explicit in depen

[PATCH] small problem with automake-1.4

2000-12-14 Thread Marc Espie
There is a small problem with automake-1.4 that is no longer present in the development reasons. There is a weird interaction with some versions of ksh that make the generated recursive clean rules fail. Namely, the error from within the loop propagates outside the loop and makes the whole target