On Wednesday 05 February 2003 3:10 pm, Richard GeiÃler wrote: > What about getting rid of this script. This script provides two features: > > 1) create a directory and the required parent directories. This could be > done by the -p option of mkdir as well. > > 2) create a list of directories. I'm not sure whether this feature is > required. In ./lib/Makefile a list of directories is created using a > for-loop in the Makefile. If this applies to all Makefiles, replacing > mkinstalldirs with mkdir should be possible. > > By using the -m option of mkdir the permission can be set to 755.
And you are sure that these options are standard across all unices not just gnu? Hmmm. It appear that they are POSIX, so it's certainly an option. http://www-sld.slac.stanford.edu/HELP/POSIX/SHELL_COMMANDS/MKDIR Angus
