Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 25/25] build: do not create directories at configure time

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 June 2012 12:54, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
>> +  mkdir -p `dirname $2`
>
> Please leave the argument quoted, like
>
>  dir=`dirname "$2`

(missing ", obviously)

>  mkdir -p "$dir"

Can we use
 mkdir -p "$(dirname "$2")"

or are we still trying to be compatible with some non-POSIX
shell from the dawn of time?

-- PMM