From d8fdf046d158b1297039bf7f98754e8ac343c4cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 18:17:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] o fixed "-d" flag was ignored (directory was always created)
 o fixed directory creation failed when relative path was used 	(ie path
 containing ".." or ".")

---
 src/tools/installEpics | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/installEpics b/src/tools/installEpics
index fbe6fe847..6e37b5a36 100755
--- a/src/tools/installEpics
+++ b/src/tools/installEpics
@@ -44,16 +44,24 @@ do
 done
 
 if [ ! -d "${INSTALL_DIR}" ] ;then
-    if [ "${CREATE_DIR}" ] ;then
+    if [ ${CREATE_DIR} != "0" ] ;then
         OLDIFS=${IFS}
         IFS=/
         DIRNAME=
         for DIR in ${INSTALL_DIR}
         do
-		    DIRNAME=${DIRNAME}/${DIR}
-            if [ ! -d "${DIRNAME}" ] ;then
-                mkdir "${DIRNAME}"
-            fi
+	    if [ "${DIR}" = "." ] || [ "${DIR}" = ".." ] ;then
+	        if  [ "${DIRNAME}" = "" ] ;then
+ 	    	    DIRNAME=${DIR}
+		else
+ 	    	    DIRNAME=${DIRNAME}/${DIR}
+		fi
+	    else
+ 	    	DIRNAME=${DIRNAME}/${DIR}
+		if [ ! -d "${DIRNAME}" ] ;then
+		    mkdir "${DIRNAME}"
+		fi
+	    fi
         done
         IFS=${OLDIFS}
     else