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In article <1992Nov11.204807.25796@cc.umontreal.ca> gaumondp@ere.umontreal.CA (Gaumond Pierre) writes:
>I have a question about the "Makefile" on the main directory of the 18.59
>version of Emacs.
>
>Why don't you use the "-p" option of mkdir in the "mkdir" dependancy?
>
>mkdir: FRC
>	-mkdir ${LIBDIR} ${BINDIR} ${MANDIR}

	I found myself the answer, I was on a System V Unix. I logged myself
	on a BSD Unix and the "-p" option does not exist.

	So, one has to build by hand the directories before doing the make
	command.

>You asssume that only the last part of the path names does not exist. This is
>probably the case with default values on most systems, but if we decide to
>create, say, a test version, with directory names having more than one
>component that don't exist, mkdir will not create the directory.
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