gettext vs automake

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:56, Tim Waugh wrote:
> The automake we have in Fedora development no longer provides
> mkinstalldirs,

That should not be true. cf.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2003-11/msg00014.html

>  but the gettext m4 macros and Makefile.in.in still want
> to use it.  The same goes for glib-gettext.m4.
This would qualify as bugs in automake >= 1.8

> Are these things that we need to fix before release?  I guess they'll
> prevent maintainers from being able to release packages using Fedora
> Core 2..
> 
> Or is it only me seeing it?
I'd recommend to contact automake at gnu.org

Ralf