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From: David Given <dg@cowlark.com>
Subject: Re: Broken-up patch #6
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 01:32:40 +0100
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Tommy McCabe wrote:
[...]
>  all:		$(PROGS)
> +	mkdir $(TARGET_MNT)/sbin

If sbin already exists, this will fail. You want either '-mkdir' (ignore 
result) or 'mkdir -p' (create path if it doesn't already exist).

This has confused me many times in the past...

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