I noticed this while building from libvirt.git on RHEL 5.6: Generating internals/command.html.tmp mkdir: cannot create directory `/internals': Permission denied If I had been building as root instead, this pollutes /. Older autoconf lacks $(builddir), but it is rigorously equal to '.' in newer autoconf, so we could use '$(MKDIR_P) internals' instead. However, since internals/command.html is part of the tarball, we _already_ build it in $(srcdir), not $(builddir) during VPATH builds, so the mkdir is wasted effort! * docs/Makefile.am (internals/%.html.tmp): Drop unused mkdir. --- docs/Makefile.am | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am index a8024b3..a98ced0 100644 --- a/docs/Makefile.am +++ b/docs/Makefile.am @@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ hvsupport.html.in: $(srcdir)/hvsupport.pl $(srcdir)/../src/libvirt_public.syms \ internals/%.html.tmp: internals/%.html.in subsite.xsl page.xsl sitemap.html.in @if [ -x $(XSLTPROC) ] ; then \ echo "Generating $@"; \ - $(MKDIR_P) "$(builddir)/internals"; \ name=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/.tmp//'`; \ $(XSLTPROC) --stringparam pagename $$name --nonet --html \ $(top_srcdir)/docs/subsite.xsl $< > $@ \ -- 1.7.4.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list