%% "Henry Gessau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
hg> I want to create a rule that creates a directory if the directory
hg> does not exist, and another rule where a file depends on the
hg> existence of this directory, but not how old the directory is.
You can't.
I always recommend against this approach (directories as prerequisites).
It can never work well with make.
If you're using GNU make, just do something like this:
__dummy := $(shell [ -d $(DIR) ] || $(MKDIR) $(DIR))
(where I typically set MKDIR to "mkdir -p" on systems that support it).
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