On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Jens Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris, please don't top post. How the hell should I reply to it? Read an > arbitrary mailing list netiquette guide ... > Uh, the one time I've top posted in years of using mailing lists and you choose that one to be an asshole? bite me. > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:46:39PM -0700, Chris Larson wrote: > > I noticed a long time ago that a certain error from the autoreconf is a > sign > > that your po/ makefiles are from old gettext, and will end up seeing the > > mkinstalldirs failure. See > http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/1004/. > > Haven't had a chance to do any further investigation on it since then, > > however. > > Your patch just refers to the warning > "WARNING: po/Makefile.in seems to ignore the .*dir setting" > Yes, I know, I wrote it. > Maybe it causes make to install files into wrong directories but I had > never > problems with this. The error from this thread was a real error because of > an incompatibility of special versions of gettext and automake. As we both > observed using a newer gettext version (by just bumping the minimal > gettext version in configure.ac, in general not by upgrading gettext) > helps. > I did not say that this warning referred to the exact behavior you saw. Perhaps you should re-read the email. I said it's a sign of use of makefiles from old gettext, which also tend to run into the problem you've seen. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
