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- From: gaumondp@ere.umontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
- Subject: Re: Emacs installation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.165913.5132@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 16:59:13 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.204807.25796@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- Organization: Universite de Montreal
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- In article <1992Nov11.204807.25796@cc.umontreal.ca> gaumondp@ere.umontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre) writes:
- >I have a question about the "Makefile" on the main directory of the 18.59
- >version of Emacs.
- >
- >Why don't you use the "-p" option of mkdir in the "mkdir" dependancy?
- >
- >mkdir: FRC
- > -mkdir ${LIBDIR} ${BINDIR} ${MANDIR}
-
- I found myself the answer, I was on a System V Unix. I logged myself
- on a BSD Unix and the "-p" option does not exist.
-
- So, one has to build by hand the directories before doing the make
- command.
-
- >You asssume that only the last part of the path names does not exist. This is
- >probably the case with default values on most systems, but if we decide to
- >create, say, a test version, with directory names having more than one
- >component that don't exist, mkdir will not create the directory.
- --
- Pierre Gaumond. gaumondp@ERE.UMontreal.CA
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