Re: mkinstalldirs --version

[Bruno Haible]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

>  Bruno> 2. it doesn't have the "mkdir -p" optimization that
>  Bruno> mkinstalldirs has.
>
> Then, how about a configure test to set `mkinstalldirs = mkdir -p'
> when it works?  (This, of course, is independent of whether the
> replacement is mkinstalldirs or install-sh.)

This would be good. Use Posix command on those systems which
have them.

Just for info (so you can avoid a clash): GNU gettext uses the
@MKINSTALLDIRS@ autoconf variable to point to the mkinstalldirs script
(see AM_MKINSTALLDIRS in nls.m4), and it uses the $(mkinstalldirs)
Makefile variable to contain the command for creating directories.

So if you define an autoconf variable @mkinstalldirs@ containing
either
    mkdir -p                     [on systems that support it]
or
    $(SHELL) $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
or
    $(SHELL) pathname_to_install_sh -d

it would be fine w.r.t. gettext.

> This license was fixed in Automake 1.7.5.

Good!

Bruno