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Re: [Chicken-users] installation directory not created on MSYS
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John.Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] installation directory not created on MSYS |
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Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:08:27 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:
> I find that when I type "mkdir /usr/local" on the MSYS command line, it
> works. However, "mkdir /usr/local/bin" does not work. I deduce that
> "mkdir" is too stupid to create anything more than one directory level
> deep? Is this generally true of Unix? And, in this event, shouldn't
> CMake deal with it? Or is that not Unix culture, i.e. Unixen expect to
> write tedious scripts to do the obvious every time? I am thinking a
> cross-platform tool should implement a uniform policy. In any event,
> I'm thinking it should report a failure... although again I'm vaguely
> aware of a Unix "silent failure" culture... which I've heard Pythonistas
> don't care for... and Pythonistas annoy the Perl guys.........
The mkdir command in Unix is a thin wrapper over the mkdir() system call,
and creates only the final directory mentioned in an argument pathname;
all others must exist. However, the standard -p option will create all
the directories mentioned if they do not exist already.
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