[uClibc] mkdir -p ?

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Fri Sep 17 21:40:45 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 05:11:06PM -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Amit Kucheria wrote:
> >Is there a reason that the Makefile and linux.mk donot use 'mkdir -p'?
> 
> In context with the uClibc build, I have no idea.
> 
> I think `mkdir -p' is gnu specific or at least not very portable.
> 
> usualy, `install -d' is preferred.

Because I never use linux.mk.  That's something left over from one of
Erik's projects some time ago.  No doubt it needs a major reworking.

Manuel



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