[Ecls-list] Build problems on Mac OS X

Michael Price ectospheno at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 14:59:01 UTC 2006


On 3/8/06, Rudi Schlatte <rudi at constantly.at> wrote:
> IIUC, the mkdir commands were added recently, and on OS X mkdir
> returns an error code when the directory to be created already exists.

What on earth are you talking about? The mkdir on OS X is the same
mkdir on every BSD variant, is POSIX.2 compliant, and supports the
same options as the one on Linux.

> There doesn't seem to be a flag to tell mkdir to ignore this
> condition -- "mkdir ecl/gc/private || true" might be a fix.

'-p'

Michael


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