From bfc8328181f0760cedaf5b7cb3a664a42d8ba4dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Martin A. Brown" <martin@linux-ip.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 08:13:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] be just a touch more informative about what went wrong

---
 tldp/driver.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tldp/driver.py b/tldp/driver.py
index 454390c..1bc8417 100644
--- a/tldp/driver.py
+++ b/tldp/driver.py
@@ -367,7 +367,11 @@ def run(argv):
         builddir = os.path.join(builddir, 'ldp-builddir')
         if not arg_isdirectory(builddir):
             logger.debug("Creating build directory %s.", builddir)
-            os.mkdir(builddir)
+            try:
+                os.mkdir(builddir)
+            except OSError:
+                logger.critical("Could not make --builddir %s.", builddir)
+                raise
         config.builddir = builddir
 
     if not config.pubdir: