automake: Obsolete Macros
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1 6.4.2 Obsolete Macros
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1 Although using some of the following macros was required in past
1 releases, you should not use any of them in new code. _All these macros
1 will be removed in the next major Automake version_; if you are still
1 using them, running ‘autoupdate’ should adjust your ‘configure.ac’
11 automatically (⇒(automake))). _Do it NOW!_
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1 ‘AM_PROG_MKDIR_P’
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1 From Automake 1.8 to 1.9.6 this macro used to define the output
1 variable ‘mkdir_p’ to one of ‘mkdir -p’, ‘install-sh -d’, or
1 ‘mkinstalldirs’.
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1 Nowadays Autoconf provides a similar functionality with
11 ‘AC_PROG_MKDIR_P’ (⇒Particular Program Checks
(autoconf)Particular Programs.), however this defines the output
1 variable ‘MKDIR_P’ instead. In case you are still using the
1 ‘AM_PROG_MKDIR_P’ macro in your ‘configure.ac’, or its provided
1 variable ‘$(mkdir_p)’ in your ‘Makefile.am’, you are advised to
1 switch ASAP to the more modern Autoconf-provided interface instead;
1 both the macro and the variable might be removed in a future major
1 Automake release.
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