Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] @MKINSTALLDIRS@ funk
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:34:56
Message-Id: 200608051730.06291.vapier@gentoo.org
1 not sure the impact of this, but i just finished fixing three packages with
2 this issue, and the problem arises due to "system" packages being updated ...
3
4 a recent upgrade with gettext causes some packages to fail with errors like:
5 /bin/sh: @MKINSTALLDIRS@: No such file or directory
6
7 if you hit this, it is a bug in the package, not in gettext ... so dont come
8 whining to me saying gettext sucks :P (well, i know gettext sucks, but that's
9 a different topic)
10
11 http://bugs.gentoo.org/142852#c1
12
13 if you need help in fixing your busted packaged, feel free to ask
14 -mike