Request for Review: libvisual-plugins
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Thu Apr 28 15:01:05 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:52 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> Better patch the Makefile.am and Makefile.in to use $(mkinstalldirs)
> instead of mkdirhier.
>
> If there isn't any other dependency on xorg-x11 you should be able to
> avoid xorg-x11 entirely.
*snip*
>
> mkdirhier is X11's workaround to "mkdir -p" not being available on many
> OSes. Historically it had been used outside of X11-development, which
> might explain, why it is in xorg-x11. Nowadays, mkdirhier more or less
> is an anachronism, only being used in Imakefiles.
> Automake configurations should either use automake's own mkinstalldirs,
> or (automake >= 1.9) should use $(mkdir_p).
Thank you for the info!
I'll patch it to do it the "right" way.
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