On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 02:31:28PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > The point is not that they exist, but that the program is robust against > something else creating them. Given autoconf macros have concerns about > parallel execution, it's reasonable to expect > > if (!directory_exists()) > make_it() > > and a possible returned error if it doesn't exist but then creation > fails.
I think it's a crock that autoconf suddenly cares about this after how many non-MAKE_JOBS_SAFE automake-generated makefiles we've had to deal with. And just how do they attempt to check? Anyway, it takes about fifteen seconds with mkdir.c to ascertain that this isn't a problem. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
