RE: PR 41130

["Larson, Timothy E." <TELarson%west.com@localhost>]

> A/UX's mkdir doesn't honor -p, so initially bootstrap dies twice
> when the work subdirs are created IIRC.  (Third try's the charm.)
> Re-execing too early will erroneously cause the AuxKsh marker file
> to be present when it's not actually running as ksh yet.
> 
> If all instances of "mkdir -p" could be put in a wrapper function to
> simulate the intended behavior, this could probably be moved to much
> earlier in the script.  At one point I'd tried that, but couldn't
> test my solution extensively, so fell back to the workaround of
> running bootstrap three times.

FWIW, you can see my work-in-progress at 
http://wiki.netbsd.se/User:ChristTrekker/AUX/pkgtools/bootstrap-extras/files/mkdir-sh.

Tim
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Tim Larson
App Admin, Intercall Production Services