Hi
Subversion's ac-helpers/aprutil.m4 has the code
ac_configure_args_save=$ac_configure_args
ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args MKDIR=\"$MKDIR\""
SVN_SUBDIR_CONFIG(apr-util, --with-apr=../apr)
ac_configure_args=$ac_configure_args_save
This causes MKDIR to be set for the apr-util configure, which is
required for the xml/expat directory to be created by configure when
builddir != srcdir.
At least that's how it used to work. It doesn't work for me now, and
I think it is because I have just switched to autoconf-2.53 (which has
just appeared in debian/testing). The error message is
configuring package in xml/expat now
/home/pm/sw/subversion/svn/apr-util/configure: xml/expat: No such file or
directory
/home/pm/sw/subversion/svn/apr-util/configure: cd: xml/expat: No such file or
directory
configure: warning: MKDIR=/home/pm/sw/subversion/svn/ac-helpers/install-sh -c
-d: invalid host type
loading cache /dev/null
checking host system type... config.sub: too many arguments
Try `config.sub --help' for more information.
Now ac_configure_args contains the arguments passed to the configure
process, and sure enough I get the same error message by invoking the
command
$ ../../svn/apr-util/configure
MKDIR='/home/pm/sw/subversion/svn/ac-helpers/install-sh -c -d'
This form of the command works
$ MKDIR='/home/pm/sw/subversion/svn/ac-helpers/install-sh -c -d'
../../svn/apr-util/configure
as does exporting MKDIR.
Is this an apr-util problem, a Subversion problem or is autoconf-2.53
broken?
--
Philip, who is fed up with shell scripts.
