[Xastir] Macports: last libraries update broke-up Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 03:52:00PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:56:46PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> 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.

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