Add -r/-e options to redirect stdout/stderr.

Better than using shell since it automatically uses -d directory
for output files (creating it as needed).

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/base/output.cc b/src/base/output.cc
index 5a1768a76..5a0f2ea70 100644
--- a/src/base/output.cc
+++ b/src/base/output.cc
@@ -60,12 +60,6 @@ OutputDirectory::setDirectory(const string &d)
 
     dir = d;
 
-    if (dir != ".") {
-        if (mkdir(dir.c_str(), 0777) < 0 && errno != EEXIST)
-            panic("couldn't make output dir %s: %s\n",
-                  dir, strerror(errno));
-    }
-
     // guarantee that directory ends with a '/'
     if (dir[dir.size() - 1] != '/')
         dir += "/";