Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2008-01-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Marc, I can probably be persuaded to check for fixed OpenBSD earlier (if we have a version number that can guarantee a fix, the better). But it would really help if you showed some minimal cooperation by proving to me that, as you claimed, the install-sh script (which scriptversion?) contained a

Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2008-01-29 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:48:34PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Marc, > > Thanks for the report. > > * Marc Espie wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:29:37PM CET: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:25:56PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > > the mkdir -p macro arbitrarily restricts itself to GNU mkd

Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2008-01-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Marc, Thanks for the report. * Marc Espie wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:29:37PM CET: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:25:56PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > the mkdir -p macro arbitrarily restricts itself to GNU mkdir by passing > > it a --version. Not arbitrarily. > > This is a bit offensiv

Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2007-12-28 Thread Marc Espie
And yet another problematic package, jpilot fails to install correctly when built in parallel mode for the same reason. Even if detecting OpenBSD is not easy, I don't understand why this test is hardcoded. In general, most autoconf/automake tests DO set a cache entry, and you can later rely on th

Re: bug in mkdir -p detection

2007-12-27 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:25:56PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > the mkdir -p macro arbitrarily restricts itself to GNU mkdir by passing > it a --version. > > This is a bit offensive. On OpenBSD, this particular issue does not exist. > It was fixed 8 years ago, published as OpenBSD 2.4, and all newer

bug in mkdir -p detection

2007-12-27 Thread Marc Espie
the mkdir -p macro arbitrarily restricts itself to GNU mkdir by passing it a --version. This is a bit offensive. On OpenBSD, this particular issue does not exist. It was fixed 8 years ago, published as OpenBSD 2.4, and all newer versions are not affected. Could we get an OS test and use mkdir on