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@redhat.com> 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 "$srcdir/po" > /dev/null && ls *.po | sed 's+\.po$++'`