new dev branch stuff

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Erik Harrison wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:57:32 +0100, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>>...
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>>>list is: autom4te.cache, compile, config.guess, config.h,config.log,
>>>config.rpath, config.status, config.sub, configure, depcomp, install-sh,
>>>libtool, ltcf-c.sh, ltmain.sh, Makefile, mfclean, missing,
>>>mkinstalldirs, stamp-h1, *.spec - did I miss any?).
>>>      
>>>
>>mkinstalldirs is needed for po/Makefile.in.in and is no longer generated
>>by recent automake (they use $(install_sh) -d instead). If that can
>>somehow be updated, it can go as well.
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>>
>glib-gettext handles it.
>
why not just hack our po/Makefile.in.in to use $(install_sh) instead?  
then we can just ditch (and not require) mkinstalldirs at all, and not 
have to worry about the presence of glib-gettext at all.

    -brian