Re: creating directories through dependency

[John Graham-Cumming]

Dave Korn wrote:
> BTW, if you ever revise it, I noticed one minor omission in the
> discussion of using the -p option to mkdir: as well as building a
> whole path in one go, it also prevents mkdir from erroring out if the
> destination dir already exists, meaning that you don't have to use
> "-mkdir" and potentially ignore real errors as well as (irrelevant)
> EEXISTs.  I'm sure you're aware of all that, but your target audience
> might not spot the implication if you don't make it explicit.

That's a good point and worth mentioning.  I'll make a note for a future 
revision (currently trying to interest a publisher in a 'GNU Make 
Cookbook' of all my articles 
(http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/category/8/147/268) on GNU Make stuff).

John.