Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#24331: mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.in.in
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Santiago Vila <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:06:10 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Santiago Vila wrote:
> There must be some other reason. The Debian diffutils package does not
> run autoreconf before compiling the package, as I still trust you GNU
> people to provide a sane configure script.

Ah, I found it. The fix was to Automake, here:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=d90001e3a90ea37fe6866120eb96be7bed8ba66c

Since Jim used a new-enough Automake to build the diffutils 3.5 distribution, 
you should be OK without 02-fix-mkdir-p-definition-in-po-makefile-in-in.