Re: Bootstrap failure using 'make -j4' [Cygwin]

[David Engster]

Jan Djärv writes:
> Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-05-22 14.46:
>>> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:00:53 +0200
>>> From: Jan Djärv<address@hidden>
>>> CC: Angelo Graziosi<address@hidden>, address@hidden
>>>
>>> A better solution is probably to replace
>>>
>>>         test -d ${DEPDIR} || mkdir ${DEPDIR}
>>>
>>> with
>>>
>>>         mkdir -p ${DEPDIR}
>>
>> I think the -p switch to mkdir is not portable.
>>
>
> I has been in The Single UNIX ® Specification since 1997 at least.  I
> think it was in POSIX 2 as well (1990), but I lost it, so I can't
> check.

That may be, but 'mkdir -p' is not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

-David