Your message dated Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:18:16 -0700
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and subject line Bug #540233: $as_mkdir_p creates '"$as_dir"' directory
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regarding autoconf: $as_mkdir_p creates '"$as_dir"' directory
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Package: autoconf
Version: 2.64-1
Severity: normal
I built ruby (www.ruby-lang.org) with autoconf 2.64-1,
and I found strange directory '"$as_dir"' found in build directory.
Ruby's configure.in includes $as_mkdir_p,
it makes '"$as_dir"' directory.
reproducable example:
% cat configure.in
AC_INIT()
if $as_mkdir_p; then
MAKEDIRS='mkdir -p'
else
MAKEDIRS='install -d'
fi
% autoconf
% ./configure
% \ls
"$as_dir" autom4te.cache config.log configure configure.in
%
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages autoconf depends on:
ii debianutils 3.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii m4 1.4.13-1 a macro processing language
ii perl 5.10.0-24 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages autoconf recommends:
ii automake [automaken] 1:1.10.2-1 A tool for generating GNU Standard
Versions of packages autoconf suggests:
pn autobook <none> (no description available)
pn autoconf-archive <none> (no description available)
pn autoconf-doc <none> (no description available)
pn autoconf2.13 <none> (no description available)
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
pn gnu-standards <none> (no description available)
ii libtool 2.2.6a-4 Generic library support script
-- no debconf information
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I'm looking through old bug reports before uploading Autoconf
2.67.
Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA <[email protected]> initially reported that
invoking $as_mkdir_p from a configure script created a directory
named '"$as_dir"'.
Ralf Wildenhues replied:
$as_mkdir_p is not a documented Autoconf API, and you are not
supposed to use it directly, and its usage may change.
However, the AS_MKDIR_P macro is documented.
Kazuhiro replied:
This information forwarded to Ruby BTS and fixed in trunk and
ruby_1_8 branch.
Since Kazuhiro seems satisfied with this handling, I don't think
that there is any bug here, so I am closing it (with this email).
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
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