Re: Making needed Directory

[Jason Lunz]

address@hidden said:
> I prefer to do something like this:
>
>   MKDIRS += foo
>   MKDIRS += bar
>       ...
>
>   __dummy := $(shell foreach d in $(MKDIRS); do [ -d $$d ] || mkdir -p $$d; 
> done)
>
> That is loop is invoked once per invocation of make.

Is there any reason for the __dummy? I have a Makefile that does:

$(shell mkdir -p $(OUTDIR))

and that seems to work fine.

Jason