Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420) RT-Send-CC: X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 305 This problem needs to be fixed in Makefile.w32 and Makefile.w2k. Otherwise the abstraction layer between Makefile.w32/w2k and Makefile is broken. Makefile should not need to know what the definition of DESTDIR is. The appropriate mkdir commands must go into the mkdirs:: section of Makefile.w32/w2k.