Make distcheck currently fails like this:
make[2]: Entering directory `/t/libvirt-0.7.6/_build/po'
/bin/sh @MKINSTALLDIRS@ /t/libvirt-0.7.6/_inst/share
/bin/sh: @MKINSTALLDIRS@: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 127
That is due to our use of a version of gettext that is way too old:
$ grep GETT configure.ac
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.14.1])
The work-around is to define (via AC_SUBST) the now-obsolete symbol,
MKINSTALLDIRS, so that @MKINSTALLDIRS@ in the autopoint-provided
Makefile.in.in (from the old version of gettext) ends up being
substituted.
As I recall, people insist on using this old version of gettext,
because nothing newer is supplied by RHEL5.x. IMHO, that is RHEL5's
problem, and should not be allowed to cause continuing problems
in upstream projects. It is easy and safe to install a newer version
of gettext, especially since any project using autopoint will
automatically continue to get the same bit-rotting old files:
a gettext installation includes an archive of all older versions
of its files, to provide just this type of backwards compatibility.
We had a similar problem in libguestfs, and it was not trivial to diagnose
there, either, even though I'd seen it at least once or twice before then.
Here's the work-around:
[just realized this requires a comment. adding that now]
>From 16b9418427101a495b7fdd6917f518f254d22720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:53:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] build: ensure that MKINSTALLDIRS is AC_SUBST-defined
since we're using gettext-0.14.1, which uses that now-obsolete
automake symbol. Otherwise, make distcheck would fails like this:
make[2]: Entering directory `/t/libvirt-0.7.6/_build/po'
/bin/sh @MKINSTALLDIRS@ /t/libvirt-0.7.6/_inst/share
/bin/sh: @MKINSTALLDIRS@: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 127
* configure.ac (MKINSTALLDIRS): Define.
---
configure.ac | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 117cb20..2f79970 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ AC_PROG_CPP
AC_OBJEXT
+AC_SUBST([MKINSTALLDIRS], [$ac_aux_dir/mkinstalldirs])
+
dnl gl_INIT uses m4_foreach_w, yet that is not defined in autoconf-2.59.
dnl In order to accommodate developers with such old tools, here's a
dnl replacement definition.
--
1.7.0.367.g566c3
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