Hi Tom & Curt, Thanks for supplementary explanations, i have also a 1st gen Mac mini running OS X 10.5.8, i am going to update Macports libraries and will report if any findings.
73 de Cyril - DF1CHB/AM - F1MHV/M > Le 18 sept. 2017 à 23:54, Tom Russo <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 03:52:00PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:56:46PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron >> collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >>>> 2) Checking for 'mkinstalldirs'... Not Found >>>> Attempting to copy it from system directories' >>>> ***ERROR: Couldn't copy the file*** >>> >>> Look at bootstrap.sh, the lines it failed on were: >>> >>> (cp /usr/local/share/automake*/mkinstalldirs . 2>/dev/null) >>> (cp /usr/share/automake*/mkinstalldirs . 2>/dev/null) >> >> Those lines should be safe to remove now, and were never strictly correct. >> They date back to 2006, when mkinstalldirs was still a useful part of >> autoconf/automake. They're deprecated now: >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Auxiliary-Programs.html >> >> says: >> >> mkinstalldirs > > FWIW, it has been deprecated since at least Automake 1.8 > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-03/msg00014.html > > > It's entirely possible that we had "mkinstalldirs" listed as a required > file in a Makefile.am, then when it stopped working with Automake 1.9, you > added the copy operations. The right thing to have done back then would have > been to remove it from Makefile.am instead. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
