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Subject: 	what does bad MAKEDIR mean, can you build within a Makefile

hi,

first, thanks to Jim McGinness for helping with me 
with my last problem.  i am now able to build a library
and export the header files which goes along with it
using DATAFILES.


i am now writing the Makefile for the programs which will use
this library and would like to have a dependency such that the
library will get built if it doesn't exist.

here is the relavent part of the makefile:


$(PROGRAMS):    libthreadRace.a

libthreadRace.a:
        build -here /sqa/threadRace


what i would like is for the Makefile to check that the
library exists, if it doesn't then have it
call build to build it.

this is what i get:

% build
relative path: ./sqa/exer/kern.
cd ../../../../obj/alpha/sqa/exer/kern
build -here /sqa/threadRace
cd ... ./sqa/threadRace.
Directory /u1/sb/src/sqa/threadRace not found - create  [yes]  /u1/sb/src/sqa/threadRace: created directory
Make: ../../src/sqa/threadRace: bad MAKEDIR.  Stop.
*** Exit 1

i don't understand the error message regarding MAKEDIR.

any help would be appreciated.

thanks much!

dan christians