makepp

Can a makefile have a directory as a target?

I am trying to say "the download of the git repository will only work if the directory yank/ exists. If the directory yank/ does not exist then make it" yank/gist.el/gist.el : yank cd yank ; git clone http://github.com/defunkt/gist.el.git yank: mkdir yank I am using makepp - http://makepp.sf.net and am getting the error: [m...

what, besides the source, would cause an explicit rule to execute to produce a makefile target?

It is clear that the target is newer than the source from these two ls comands: [metaperl@andLinux ~/edan/pkg/gist.el] ls -l ../../wares/gist.el/gist.elc #target -rw-r--r-- 1 metaperl metaperl 10465 Jul 18 10:56 ../../wares/gist.el/gist.elc [metaperl@andLinux ~/edan/pkg/gist.el] ls -l yank/gist.el/gist.el #source -rw-r--r-- 1 metaperl m...