Re: mkdir -p, autoconf

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

Am Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 06:40:19AM -0400 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> autoconf has a macro AC_PROG_MKDIR_P that sets MKDIR_P.  However it is
> all paranoid about races, wanting two simultaneous 'mkdir -p foo'
> invocations to result in foo being created and neither returning
> failure, because...  specculating somehow there are makefiles that don't
> serialize that like they do actual build steps, and somehow those
> makefiles are not considered buggy?

Actually, looking at the implementation: Can someone please fill a bug
report with GNU for this crap? The criterion for working they are using:
it supports --version. That's utter crap and completely unacceptable.
Seriously, black list ancient systems if you want, but demanding
everything to be GNUish is not.

Joerg