The attached script fixes the problem by adding a conditional. Its not a beautiful solution, but the original has similar workarounds:
("# IFS parsing is broken")
Someone should forward upstream (whatever that is these days) and
beautify to taste. The original complaint is at [1].
Justin
PS. Greetings from Potsdam, NY, USA!
References
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=141347
#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: mkdirhier.sh,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:41:53 cpqbld Exp $
# Courtesy of Paul Eggert
newline='
'
IFS=$newline
case ${1--} in
-*) echo >&2 "mkdirhier: usage: mkdirhier directory ..."; exit 1
esac
status=
for directory
do
case $directory in
'')
echo >&2 "mkdirhier: empty directory name"
status=1
continue;;
*"$newline"*)
echo >&2 "mkdirhier: directory name contains a newline:
\`\`$directory''"
status=1
continue;;
///*) prefix=/;; # See Posix 2.3 "path".
//*) prefix=//;;
/*) prefix=/;;
-*) prefix=./;;
*) prefix=
esac
IFS=/
set x $directory
case $2 in
*/*) # IFS parsing is broken
IFS=' '
set x `echo $directory | tr / ' '`
;;
esac
IFS=$newline
shift
for filename
do
path=$prefix$filename
if [ "$path" == "/" ]; then prefix=$path;
else prefix=$path/;
fi;
shift
test -d "$path" || {
paths=$path
for filename
do
if [ -n "$filename" -a "$filename" != "." ];
then
path=$path/$filename
paths=$paths$newline$path
fi
done
mkdir $paths || status=$?
break
}
done
done
exit $status
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