I noticed this while building from libvirt.git on RHEL 5.6:
Generating internals/command.html.tmp
mkdir: cannot create directory `/internals': Permission denied
If I had been building as root instead, this pollutes /.
Older autoconf lacks $(builddir), but it is rigorously equal to '.'
in newer autoconf, so we could use '$(MKDIR_P) internals' instead.
However, since internals/command.html is part of the tarball, we
_already_ build it in $(srcdir), not $(builddir) during VPATH
builds, so the mkdir is wasted effort!
* docs/Makefile.am (internals/%.html.tmp): Drop unused mkdir.
internals/%.html.tmp: internals/%.html.in subsite.xsl page.xsl sitemap.html.in
@if [ -x $(XSLTPROC) ] ; then \
echo "Generating $@"; \
- $(MKDIR_P) "$(builddir)/internals"; \
name=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/.tmp//'`; \
$(XSLTPROC) --stringparam pagename $$name --nonet --html \
$(top_srcdir)/docs/subsite.xsl $< > $@ \