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On 2013-01-04 16:34Z, cpow wrote:
[...]
> Warren Young wrote
>> What happens if you just re-start the make operation?  Does it persist 
>> in failing to get past that point, or does re-starting it sometimes get 
>> you past the problem?
> 
> If I restart the make operation without doing mkdir myself it fails in
> exactly the same spot.  Restarting it without doing mkdir myself never gets
> past the problem.

Judging from the error message in your original post:
  make[1]: *** No rule to make target `<path>`, needed by `<rule>`.  Stop.
it doesn't sound like 'mkdir' is failing--rather, it sounds like 'make'
can't figure out what command is needed to create 'path'. Can you post
the rule that's intended to do that?


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