Re: [Planner Dev] Install Quirk

["lincoln phipps openmutual net" <lincoln phipps openmutual net>]

Richard Hult wrote:

> On fre, 2004-07-02 at 14:40 -0400, Charles Tryon wrote:
>
> > I noticed a quirk in the build process a little while back, and finally
> > figured out a workaround, but I thought I'd bring it up...
> >
> > I did a clean pull of Planner from CVS and rebuilt the application.  I'm
> > working on an install of FC2, so I have to fudge the autogen.sh file to
> > check for version 1.8 of automake, but once this is done, every thing
> > *appears* to build correctly.  (I remember a long discussion on the 1.7
> > requirement, but I don't remember the conclusion.)
> >
> > The trick is when I try to run "make install", I get an error looking
> > for the script "mkinstalldirs".  If I create an empty, executable file,
> > it actually tries to run it, and then installs normally.
> >
> > I haven't had a chance to dig into the scripts yet, but I *suspect* is
> > either, since I've already installed once before, no new directories
> > need to be created and the mkinstalldirs command isn't built, or it
> > might be the fault of the 1.7/1.8 version difference in the automake
> > program. :-/
>
>
> Yeah, we need to fix this before 0.12. Apparently, gettext (iirc)
> depends on that automake installs mkinstalldirs. Automake 1.8 stopped
> doing that (mkinstalldirs was supposed to be a private thing for
> automake) so we need to install our own mkinstalldirs or something like
> that. If anyone knows the details, a patch would be appreciated.

I read...
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg01794.html

then looked at,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132858

and at the bottom of that bugzilla it has a patch/solution
though I don't understand what this is all about :)

On my Mandrake 10 system I have a /usr/share/gettext/mkinstalldirs
shell script which is got the same dates as the rest of the files
in that directory (Jan 10th) so is part of the distro.

> /Richard