From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 07:18:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Test "$pathcomp/." so a symlink to a directory counts as an existing
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Test "$pathcomp/." so a symlink to a directory counts as an existing
directory.
---

diff --git a/mkinstalldirs b/mkinstalldirs
index cd1fe0a7..b044a331 100755
--- a/mkinstalldirs
+++ b/mkinstalldirs
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ do
        -* ) pathcomp=./$pathcomp ;;
      esac
 
-     if test ! -d "$pathcomp"; then
+     # Test `DIR/.' so that we see a symlink to a directory as a directory.
+     if test ! -d "$pathcomp"/.; then
         echo "mkdir $pathcomp" 1>&2
         mkdir "$pathcomp" || errstatus=$?
      fi