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making subdirectory within makefile

hi,
I am trying to create subdirectories under my ../objs directory within a make file.

my ../src directory has the following subdirectories:
Code:
source-a
source.1.1

so, I want to label the subdirectories under my ../objs directory with the same names as those in the ../src directory, so that I have:

Code:
../objs/source-a
../objs/source.1.1

I have written the following code:

Code:
SRCDIR = $(shell echo ../src/*)
OBJDIR = ../objs

subdirname :=$(notdir $(basename $(SRCDIR)))
objdirs := $(addprefix $(OBJDIR)/, $(subdirname))

all: makedir

makedir: $(objdirs)
 mkdir $^

but that is not working, I get an error message as follows:
Code:
make: *** No rule to make target `../objs/source-a', needed by `makedir'.  Stop.

How do I fix this?

thanks!

Last edited by pludi; 06-02-2011 at 01:10 PM..
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