I don't know how automake does it (I've never perused an automake
generated makefile deeply enough).
In my personal (non-AM) build systems I do something like this:
__dummy := $(shell [ -d .deps ] || mkdir .deps)
There is some information about creating directories in the GNU make manual.
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