In regard to: Re: CVS GIMP-Perl bug, tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx said (at 4:04pm on...: >Marc; > >On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:56:49PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:30:40PM -0400, tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> > This is actually a long-standing bug in CVS. If I'm doing a fresh >> > install, the Perl module is installed before the 'modules' >> > directory is created, so I get an error like this: >> > >> > cp: cannot create regular file >> > `/usr/local/lib/gimp/1.1/modules/libperlinterp.so': No such file >> > or directory >> >> I have no idea how to fix this properly ;) > >I recommend 'mkdir -p' :-) Not guaranteed to be portable. That's why the `mkinstalldirs' script ships with almost every GNU package. It does exactly what mkdir -p does, but it does it portably. Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J1, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
