Testing with UNC paths && GNU mkinstalldirs not working with (Cygwin) UNC dirs ...

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-03-08 11:22, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> While doing testing with UNC paths I found that GNU mkinstalldirs does
> not handle UNC paths - for example creating subdirs in
> //foo.bar.com/chickmonster/dir1/dir2/ will *partially* appear in
> /foo.bar.com/chickmonster/dir1/dir2/
> Workaround is in
> https://github.com/kofemann/ms-nfs41-client/blob/296286c364548eba9b8e692521910fd59a99ebf7/tests/nfsbuildtest/nfsbuildtest.ksh93#L121
> ... which basically replaces the GNU mkinstalldirs script with a
> version which just calls mkdir -p "$@"
> 
> Questions:
> - Does Cygwin have any testsuite which tests with UNC paths, or do I
> have to write one myself (for ms-nfs41-client and ms-nfs42-client we
> have stuff like
> https://github.com/kofemann/ms-nfs41-client/blob/master/tests/nfsbuildtest/nfsbuildtest.ksh93
> which runs as part of the CI, both /cygdrive/$devletter/... and UNC
> path) ?
> - Does anyone know whether there is a single upstream for GNU
> mkinstalldirs, or do the various GNU projects just copy the script
> around ?

Obsolete:

	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-03/msg00013.html

use $(MKDIR_P) or `install-sh -d`

It may be upgraded if you run autoupdate.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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