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

[F1MHV]

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 <russo at bogodyn.org> a écrit :
> 
> 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.