GNU bug report logs - #24331
mkdir_p definition in po/Makefile.in.in

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila <at> unex.es>

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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