MPR#5996: ocamlbuild -build-dir dangerous behaviour

[damiendoligez]

PR transferred from https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5996

I run this command :

ocamlbuild -build-dir ../../toto ..

which did not work

+ mkdir /home/william/tmp/test/test2/..
mkdir: impossible de créer le répertoire « /home/william/tmp/test/test2/.. »: Le fichier existe
Command exited with code 1.
Failure:
  Error during command "mkdir /home/troit/tmp/test/test2/..": My_std.Exit_with_code(10).

then I did this :

ocamlbuild -build-dir '~/svn/build'

which created the directory ~ in the repository where I executed ocamlbuild

Then I wanted to remove the directory :

rm -Rf ~

:-|
Don't explain you what the problem is. Felt like a newbe