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What is gmkdir?

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ooxi commented

I'm trying to compile free-dap on Ubuntu 17.10 for samd11. However when trying to make Makefile_std, I'm getting the following error:

$ make -f Makefile_std 
make: gmkdir: Command not found
Makefile_std:64: recipe for target 'directory' failed
make: *** [directory] Error 127

Replacing @gmkdir with @mkdir fixes the problem.

What is @gmkdir, why is it used instead of @mkdir and how can I provide @gmkdir on Ubuntu?

ataradov commented

So this is very stupid thing. On Windows standard mkdir does not understand '-p' option, and just creates a '-p' directory. But you can't just replace internal mkdir with external one, so the version of shell utils that comes with Atmel Studio provides GNU mkdir that is called gmkdir.

To make it work on Linux, just remove 'g' from the name, or create an alias gmkdir -> mkdir.

I'd like to find a better solution, but I'm not sure there is one.

ooxi commented

That's ok, I'll just make an alias from gmkdir to mkdir on my system :-)

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