mkdirhier fails on Ubuntu Hardy i686 with dash shell

[Simon Marlow]

On 25/10/2009 19:34, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:49:44PM -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>>
>> Replacing the contents of mkdirhier and mkdirhier.sh with "mkdir -p $*"
>> works-around the problem.
>
> Does anyone know why we don't just call "mkdir -p" normally? Are there
> portability problems with it?

I believe 'mkdir -p' was not supported by some old unices, but AFAICT it 
seems to be supported by everything we build on these days.  It probably 
wouldn't hurt to use it instead of mkdirhier.

Cheers,
	Simon