how to prevent “directory already exists error” in a makefile when using mkdir

Question

I need to generate a directory in my makefile and I would like to not get the \"directory already exists error\" over and over even though I can easily ignore it.

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Answer 1

If having the directory already exist is not a problem for you, you could just redirect stderr for that command, getting rid of the error message:

-mkdir $(OBJDIR) 2>/dev/null