>>>>> "Roger" == Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> IMHO, this is obfuscating the code. The real means (again, Akim> IMHO) to address this issue should be to use an install-sh which Akim> creates the directories and their parents when needed. [ ... ] Roger> True. It won't be compatible with a traditional BSD install Roger> though, AFAIK. Yeah. This is a problem because install-sh is slow. I occasionally hear complaints about this. We still need mkinstalldirs for the installdirs target (which won't work perfectly with your change -- but nobody apparently uses this anyway), and maybe dist or something like that (I don't recall, but ISTR it is used elsewhere). Tom