Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> Here's the work-around:
>> [just realized this requires a comment. adding that now]
>
> Added the comment, and moved it to be right next to
> the offending GETTEXT 0.14.1 line:
>
>>From 7f006798b0e2fe85a1b22c9bdbeae5b953d99596 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 | 5 +++++
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 095e5d2..9934710 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -1655,6 +1655,11 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([WITH_LIBVIRTD],[test "x$with_libvirtd" = "xyes"])
> dnl Check for gettext
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.14.1])
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
> +dnl Since we're using such an old version of gettext, we must also define
> +dnl this symbol, in order to make the autopoint-supplied Makefile.in.in
> +dnl work properly.
> +AC_SUBST([MKINSTALLDIRS], [$ac_aux_dir/mkinstalldirs])
That was not right.
Test failed like this:
make[2]: Entering directory `/co/libvirt/libvirt-0.7.6/_build/po'
/bin/sh ../build-aux/mkinstalldirs /co/libvirt/libvirt-0.7.6/_inst/share
/bin/sh: ../build-aux/mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
Here's the incremental that should solve the problem:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9934710..77ce7db 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
dnl Since we're using such an old version of gettext, we must also define
dnl this symbol, in order to make the autopoint-supplied Makefile.in.in
dnl work properly.
-AC_SUBST([MKINSTALLDIRS], [$ac_aux_dir/mkinstalldirs])
+AC_SUBST([MKINSTALLDIRS], ["\$(top_builddir)/$ac_aux_dir/mkinstalldirs"])
ALL_LINGUAS=`cd "$srcdir/po" > /dev/null && ls *.po | sed 's+\.po$++'`
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