Hello,
I sent this bug report and patch almost a year ago but never received a
response, nor has the problem been fixed, so I thought I would try again.
The following patch is for release 2.75d and the CVS version of autoconf.
The patch addresses two issues in m4sugar/m4sh.m4:
1) _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE behaves incorrectly on some platforms (such as
NextStep and OpenStep) for which `mkdir' does not recognize any options. The
existing implementation leaves a bogus directory named "-p" sitting in the
working directory. The patch removes this bogus directory if present.
2) _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE neglects to take advantage of the older `mkdirs'
command (note the plural) which exists on some platforms (such as NextStep
and OpenStep), and which performs the same functions as `mkdir -p'. The
patch adds a check for `mkdirs' if `mkdir -p' fails.
-- ES
--- m4sh.m4 Thu Aug 21 11:18:22 2003
+++ m4sh.m4-fixed Fri Sep 26 03:50:17 2003
@@ -688,10 +688,13 @@
# -------------------
m4_defun([_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE],
[if mkdir -p . 2>/dev/null; then
- as_mkdir_p=:
+ as_mkdir_p='mkdir -p'
+elif mkdirs . 2>/dev/null; then
+ as_mkdir_p='mkdirs'
else
- as_mkdir_p=false
+ as_mkdir_p=''
fi
+test -r ./-p && rm -rf ./-p
])# _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE
# AS_MKDIR_P(PATH)
@@ -699,8 +702,8 @@
# Emulate `mkdir -p' with plain `mkdir'.
m4_define([AS_MKDIR_P],
[AS_REQUIRE([_$0_PREPARE])dnl
-{ if $as_mkdir_p; then
- mkdir -p $1
+{ if test -n "$as_mkdir_p"; then
+ $as_mkdir_p $1
else
as_dir=$1
as_dirs=
