diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tmux/tmux_3.1b.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tmux/tmux_3.1b.bb
index fde0ed4..f5078e9 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tmux/tmux_3.1b.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tmux/tmux_3.1b.bb
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@
 do_configure_prepend() {
     # The 'compat' directory is needed for output during the build but it's
     # not automatically created when building outside the source directory.
-    mkdir ${B}/compat
+    mkdir -p ${B}/compat
 }