Re: AM_PROG_MKDIR_P overcautious?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Alexandre,

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:09:54AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> OK.  Let's just fix the comment then.

thank you for resolving that.

I think the last part of your patch should be reverted, though:

>    # On NextStep and OpenStep, the `mkdir' command does not
>    # recognize any option.  It will interpret all options as
> -  # directories to create, and then abort because `.' already
> -  # exists.
> +  # directories to create.

If mkdir doesn't recognize -p, it fails because `.' already exists.
And the code relies on that failure.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan