Re: Can not run ./configure on OpenServer 5.0.6a wtih bison-1.35

[Akim Demaille]

| On 2 Apr 2002, Akim Demaille wrote:
| > >>>>> "Boyd" == Boyd Lynn Gerber <address@hidden> writes:
| > Boyd> Thanks that worked, but what I do not understand is why it does
| > Boyd> not throw away the error message like in the test case for
| > Boyd> libtool.
| >
| > I don't know what you mean.  You reported an error message:
| >
| >    checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no
| >    configure: creating ./config.status
| >    mkdir: cannot make directory: tests: File exists (error 17)
| >    config.status: error: cannot create directory "tests"
| >
| > What else are you referring to?
| 
| In configure this test is run...
| 
| if mkdir -p . 2>/dev/null; then
|   as_mkdir_p=:
| else
|   as_mkdir_p=false
| fi
| 
| Notice the 2>/dev/null above.  This throws away the error message.  If the
| 
| as_mkdir_p tests 2>/dev/null;
| 
| was run then the mkdir: cannot make directory: tests: File exists would be
| thrown away and the command would work.

Because that's not the problem.  The problem is that config.status
uses as_mkdir_p, although it does not define it.  And therefore, it
uses mkdir -p on your machine, which dies.