diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt b/PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt index c18f94571..f2fd4c8d0 100644 --- a/PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt +++ b/PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ -The macro AM_PROG_MKDIR_P is no longer going to be removed from Automake. -Let's see a bit of history to understand why. +We have dropped any plan to remove the obsolescent macro AM_PROG_MKDIR_P, +(today just an alias for the Autoconf-provided macro AC_PROG_MKDIR_P), as +well as the related $(mkdir_p) make variable and the @mkdir_p@ configure +substitution. + +That planned removal has already proven source of countless headaches and +backward-compatibility issues, which vastly outweigh any "clean-up benefit" +we would get from the removal of that obsolescent but unobtrusive cruft. + +-*-*-*- + +Let's see a bit of history. I had already scheduled the removal of the long-deprecated AM_PROG_MKDR_P macro (superseded by the Autoconf-provided one AC_PROG_MKDIR_P) for |