Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/bootstrap

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:25:35PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> Log Message:
> Replaced the weird-looking and probably wrong code in mkdir_p_early with
> much simpler code. This works around an endless recursion (and a
> segmentation fault when using bash) when ./bootstrap is run in a
> read-only directory.

The point here is to allow the initial mkdirs on a system *without*
mkdir -p. The directories are checked for existance and the tree
explicitly bails out if they are missing, so now bootstrapping is
impossible on the effected platforms.

Joerg