diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/build b/packages/lang/Python/build
index d8ed0ea0ca..06f2e57c99 100755
--- a/packages/lang/Python/build
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/build
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ INCLUDE_DIRS="$INCLUDE_DIRS email/mime encodings hotshot importlib json logging"
 INCLUDE_DIRS="$INCLUDE_DIRS multiprocessing plat-linux2 sqlite3 xml xml/dom xml/etree"
 INCLUDE_DIRS="$INCLUDE_DIRS xml/parsers xml/sax"
 
-mkdir ./Lib
+mkdir -p ./Lib
 cp ../Lib/*.py ./Lib
 
 for dirs in $INCLUDE_DIRS; do