Re: [AD] make install DEBUGMODE=1 failure

[aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:16 PM 8/08/2004, you wrote:
> Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > We should really have a way to solve this for all systems. For Unix 
> > systems, Sam's solution will work, but it won't work on Windows.
> > The problem is that failing to create the directory because it already 
> > exists shouldn't break the buildprocess.
>
> FYI, in Windows/DOS you could do:
> if not exist $(DIR) mkdir $(DIR)
> That way, mkdir will only run if $(DIR) doesn't exist. Although, AFAIK 
> there's no way to tell if it's a file or directory that way.


i could write a very simple app that could return true/false if the folder 
exists.
could it be called from a makefile ?