[oe] autotools issues (MKINSTALLDIRS, -s_

[Chris Larson]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Jens Seidel <jensseidel at users.sf.net> wrote:

> Chris, please don't top post. How the hell should I reply to it? Read an
> arbitrary mailing list netiquette guide ...
>

Uh, the one time I've top posted in years of using mailing lists and you
choose that one to be an asshole? bite me.

>
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:46:39PM -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> > I noticed a long time ago that a certain error from the autoreconf is a
> sign
> > that your po/ makefiles are from old gettext, and will end up seeing the
> > mkinstalldirs failure.  See
> http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/1004/.
> > Haven't had a chance to do any further investigation on it since then,
> > however.
>
> Your patch just refers to the warning
> "WARNING:  po/Makefile.in seems to ignore the .*dir setting"
>

Yes, I know, I wrote it.


> Maybe it causes make to install files into wrong directories but I had
> never
> problems with this. The error from this thread was a real error because of
> an incompatibility of special versions of gettext and automake. As we both
> observed using a newer gettext version (by just bumping the minimal
> gettext version in configure.ac, in general not by upgrading gettext)
> helps.
>

I did not say that this warning referred to the exact behavior you saw.
Perhaps you should re-read the email.  I said it's a sign of use of
makefiles from old gettext, which also tend to run into the problem you've
seen.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics