From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030910 Debian/1.4-4.he-1 Description of problem: Following makes it compile again. Problem is that $(top_builddir) gets appended twice for $(MKINSTALDIRS) for actual Makefile. --- shadow-4.0.3/po/Makefile.in.in.orig 2002-03-13 21:03:23.000000000 +0200 +++ shadow-4.0.3/po/Makefile.in.in 2003-10-19 01:47:26.000000000 +0300 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ INSTALL = @INSTALL@ INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@ MKINSTALLDIRS = @MKINSTALLDIRS@ -mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) `case "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" in /*) echo "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; *) echo "$(top_builddir)/$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; esac` +mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) `case "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" in /*) echo "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; *) echo "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; esac` CC = @CC@ GMSGFMT = @GMSGFMT@ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.3-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to rebuild 2. 3. Actual Results: Fails to rebuild Additional info:
Depending on the version of autoconf you have installed, the change above is either necessary for the build to work (2.57), or causes it to fail (2.52). For now, I think overriding MKINSTALLDIRS on the %makeinstall command line is the safest thing to do, as it works in both cases.