mkdir -p is not fully portable (according to Marc Crispin,

NeXTstep creates a directory called -p); now mkdir-p.pl does its job.

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diff --git a/util/mkdir-p.pl b/util/mkdir-p.pl
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+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+
+# mkdir-p.pl
+
+# On some systems, the -p option to mkdir (= also create any missing parent
+# directories) is not available.
+
+my $arg;
+
+foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
+  &do_mkdir_p($arg);
+}
+
+
+sub do_mkdir_p {
+  local($dir) = @_;
+
+  $dir =~ s|/*$||;
+
+  if (-d $dir) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if ($dir =~ /\//) {
+    local($parent) = $dir;
+    $parent =~ s|[^/]*$||;
+
+    do_mkdir_p($parent);
+  }
+
+  mkdir($dir, 0777) || die "Cannot create directory $dir: $!\n";
+  print "created directory $dir\n";
+}