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I'm using a VS2005 command window.  

Here are the mkdirs usages that sure look like they want a bunch of 
directories created:

$ find /cygdrive/c/KfW/pismere/athena/auth/krb5/src/windows -exec grep 
mkdirs {} /dev/null \; | grep -v \.log: | grep -v \.svn
identity/doc/Makefile:all: mkdirs docs
identity/help/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(CHMFILE) $(INCFILES)
identity/kconfig/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(OBJFILES)
identity/kcreddb/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(OBJ)\kcredres.res 
$(OBJFILES)
identity/kherr/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(OBJFILES)
identity/kmm/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(MSGRESFILE) $(OBJFILES)
identity/kmq/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(OBJFILES)
identity/nidmgrdll/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(DLLFILE)
identity/nidmgrdll/Makefile.w2k:all: mkdirs $(DLLFILE)
identity/plugins/common/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(OBJFILES)
identity/plugins/krb4/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(MSGRESFILE) $(DLLFILE) 
lang
identity/plugins/krb5/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(MSGRESFILE) $(DLLFILE) 
lang
identity/sample/templates/credprov/Makefile:mkdirs::
identity/sample/templates/credprov/Makefile:all: mkdirs 
$(CONFIGHEADER) $(DLL) lang
identity/ui/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(MANIFESTFILE) $(EXEFILE)
identity/ui/Makefile.w2k:all: mkdirs $(EXEFILE)
identity/uilib/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(UIDLLOBJFILES)
identity/util/Makefile:all: mkdirs $(INCFILES) $(OBJFILES)