make doesn't create failure-logs directory

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2017-01-30 16:28, Mike Burton wrote:
> While looking at JDK-8173375 I found that `make` does not create the directory `build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-release/make-support/failure-logs` during a failed build. I couldn’t find reference to this in build-dev archives so maybe a new bug?
>
> Mike Burton

I'm not sure why you think this is the case. In make/InitSupport.gmk, we 
have:

   define PrepareFailureLogs
         $(RM) -r $(MAKESUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/failure-logs 2> /dev/null && \
         $(MKDIR) -p $(MAKESUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/failure-logs
   endef

Unless rm is returning a non-0 exit code, that should work perfectly 
well. I've never seen it fail. Can you reproduce this problem?

/Magnus