Re: make always builds, part 2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:32:05 -0500
> Cc: Edgar <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:22 -0500, David Boyce wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >        __dummy := $(shell mkdir $(OBJDIRECTORY))
> > 
> > Generally best here (again, assuming POSIX) to use mkdir -p which does
> > not fail if the directory already exists.
> 
> Yes but I don't know if there's an equivalent in Windows.

There is none, you must ignore the errors instead (with a `-').

> If not redirect stderr to /dev/null (or the equivalent in Windows).

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