On Friday 15 March 2013 14:52:50 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Mike Frysinger > > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:36:38 -0400 > > Cc: Tom Tromey , pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr, > > yao@codesourcery.com > > > > > > There's a gnulib mkdir module. > > > > > > That's another possibility, yes. Although for such a simple job I'm > > > not sure the gnulib complexity is justified. But I don't object to > > > using the gnulib mkdir module. > > > > we pulled in gnulib specifically to avoid growing a custom compat layer > > in gdb. seems like adding it to the existing gnulib list is pretty > > trivial work. > > I said I didn't object, didn't I? and i didn't say you did, did i ? you said the replacement in this particular case is fairly simple, but that's the problem with these things -- they always starts as simple one-offs for specific targets. having worked on many projects that took varying amounts of such one-offs (including mkdir redirects), gnulib is really the only sane answer. it takes all the worry off our shoulders. -mike