RFR: JDK-8211724: Change mkdir -p to MakeDir macro where possible (original) (raw)

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Fri Oct 5 21:31:31 UTC 2018

As a followup to JDK-8211677, here is an attempt at fixing most other instances of $(MKDIR) -p to instead of the MakeDir or MakeTargetDir macros. Since fixing the previous bug, we have hit the race in other recipes as well so this is really needed.

There are some situations where the macro would not apply, so those have been skipped. I'm also pretty sure that those are race free. See bug comment for details.

In addition to this I evaluated the AC_PROG_MKDIR_P macro. It didn't quite work out for us however. The fallback method if it cannot find a suitable mkdir binary is to use the build-aux/install.sh script. Our problem is that we have not included this script in our source (just a fake empty file) and to include it now would require a lot of legal work. What I've done instead is to simply add gmkdir first in the list of programs to look for when searching for mkdir. On Solaris, this is the program the macro found (and internally we have that installed on Solaris), so this will at least fix the immediate problem we are currently facing.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211724

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8211724/webrev.01/index.html

/Erik

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