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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/stage.py2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/stage.py b/lib/spack/spack/stage.py
index 3887af4dad..9a0d5fdf3f 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/stage.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/stage.py
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ class Stage(object):
if lock:
self._lock_file = join_path(spack.stage_path, self.name + '.lock')
if not os.path.exists(self._lock_file):
+ directory, _ = os.path.split(self._lock_file)
+ mkdirp(directory)
touch(self._lock_file)
self._lock = llnl.util.lock.Lock(self._lock_file)