[ng] mkinstalldirs: remove support for the script and the variable

According to our documentation:

    mkinstalldirs used to be a wrapper around 'mkdir -p', which is not
    portable.  Now we prefer to use 'install-sh -d' when configure
    finds that 'mkdir -p' does not work, this makes one less script to
    distribute.  For backward compatibility mkinstalldirs is still used
    and distributed when automake finds it in a package.  But it is no
    longer installed automatically, and it should be safe to remove it.

So we remove the 'mkinstalldirs' as well as its companion $(mkinstalldirs)
variable from Automake-NG altogether.

* NG-NEWS, doc/automake-ng.texi: Update.
* automake.in (handle_configure): Don not require nor distribute the
'mkinstalldirs' script anymore.  Do not define the $(mkinstalldirs)
variable.
(@common_files): Do not report 'mkinstalldirs' anymore.  Reformat the
array while we are at it, to make it easier to add or remove entries
in the future.
* lib/mkinstalldirs: Delete this file.
* Makefile.am (dist_script_DATA): Remove it.
(check-coverage-run, recheck-coverage-run): Use $(MKDIR_P), not
$(mkinstalldirs), to create the 'cover_db' directory.
* syntax-checks.mk (sc_mkinstalldirs): Adjust to verify we have mo more
instances of 'mkinstalldirs'.
* contrib/multilib/config-ml.in: Remove comment referencing the
'mkinstalldirs' script.
* t/auxdir.sh: Adjust to use 'py-compile' rather than 'mkinstalldirs'.
* t/auxdir6.sh: Likewise.
* t/auxdir7.sh: Likewise.
* t/auxdir8.sh: Likewise.
* t/pr9.sh: Adjust comments to avoid spuriously triggering the
'sc_mkinstalldirs' maintainer check.
* t/mkinst3.sh: Converted to test 'install-sh -d' rather than
'mkinstalldirs'.
* t/subdir.sh: Adjust comments.
* t/werror.sh: Use 'am_create_testdir=empty' rather than removing
the install-sh, depcomp, missing and mkinstalldirs scripts by hand.
* t/mkinstall.sh: Remove as obsolete.
* t/instman2.sh: Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/t/mkinst3.sh b/t/mkinst3.sh
index fbe01c652..79485349a 100755
--- a/t/mkinst3.sh
+++ b/t/mkinst3.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# Test mkinstalldirs with spaces in directory names.
+# Test "install-sh -d" with spaces in directory names.
 
 am_create_testdir=empty
 . ./defs || Exit 1
@@ -24,15 +24,15 @@ mkdir '~a b' && mkdir '~a b/-x  y' \
   || skip_ "directory names with spaces and metacharacters not accepted"
 rm -rf '~a b'
 
-get_shell_script mkinstalldirs
+get_shell_script install-sh
 
-# Test mkinstalldirs with the installed mkdir.
+# Test  with the installed mkdir.
 
-./mkinstalldirs '~a b/-x  y'
+./install-sh -d '~a b/-x  y'
 test -d '~a b/-x  y'
 rm -rf '~a b'
 
-# Trick mkinstalldirs into thinking mkdir does not support -p.
+# Trick install-sh into thinking mkdir does not support -p.
 
 mkdir bin
 cat >bin/mkdir <<'EOF'
@@ -54,12 +54,14 @@ export AM_PATH
 PATH=`pwd`/bin$PATH_SEPARATOR$PATH
 export PATH
 
-# Test mkinstalldirs without mkdir -p.
+# Test without mkdir -p.
 
-./mkinstalldirs '~a b/-x  y'
+./install-sh -d '~a b/-x  y'
 test -d '~a b/-x  y'
 rm -rf '~a b'
 
-./mkinstalldirs "`pwd`///~a b//-x  y"
+./install-sh -d "`pwd`///~a b//-x  y"
 test -d "`pwd`/~a b/-x  y"
 rm -rf '~a b'
+
+: