On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 09:41:22AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > >So, to be sure: Would somebody know why the patch was required in > >diffutils-3.3 and not anymore in diffutils-3.5? > > The patch apparently works around a problem where Automake doesn't AC_SUBST > for mkdir_p. There was some talk of Automake removing support for mkdir_p > (it's still listed as deprecated in the man page). Perhaps Debian Automake > removed mkdir_p support at some point, and then reverted the removal? That > would explain why you don't need the patch any more.
There must be some other reason. The Debian diffutils package does not run autoreconf before compiling the package, as I still trust you GNU people to provide a sane configure script. Thanks.
