* Makefile.in (${srcdir}/info/dir): Make sure info directory exists (backport)

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 91b09a488a3..f9b676cea88 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-10-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+        * Makefile.in (${srcdir}/info/dir): Make sure info directory exists.
+
 2014-10-22  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
         * configure.ac: Bump version to 24.4.51 to avoid ambiguity with the old
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 103b035a3c9..81fa82bb30c 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ info_dir_deps = ${srcdir}/build-aux/dir_top \
 ## but then we would need to depend on info-real, which would
 ## slow down parallelization.
 ${srcdir}/info/dir: ${info_dir_deps}
+        ${MKDIR_P} ${srcdir}/info
         tempfile=info-dir.$$$$; \
         rm -f $${tempfile}; \
         thisdir=`pwd`; \