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mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.in.in

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To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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Subject: bug#24331: closed (mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.in.in)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:07:02 +0000

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From: Santiago Vila <sanvila <at> unex.es>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.in.in
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:24:46 +0200 (CEST)

Greetings.

I'm planning to update the Debian package for diffutils.
The current patches are here:

http://sources.debian.net/src/diffutils/1:3.3-3/debian/patches/

Clearly, these four:

01-workaround-for-failing-gnulib-test
03-tune-compare-names-for-qsort
04-add-escapes-for-braces-in-perl-regex
99-config-guess-config-sub

are not required anymore.

But I'm in doubt about this one:

02-fix-mkdir-p-definition-in-po-makefile-in-in

because it would apply cleanly to diffutils-3.5 if I keep it.

The problem such patch was supposed to fix was this one:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-diffutils/2013-08/msg00010.html

and apparently the patch is not needed anymore.

So, to be sure: Would somebody know why the patch was required in
diffutils-3.3 and not anymore in diffutils-3.5?

Thanks.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Santiago Vila <sanvila <at> unex.es>
Cc: 24331-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#24331: mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.in.in
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:06:10 -0700

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.

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