Investigate adding a mkdir guard to makefiles

[jaxesn]

What would you like to be added: We have mkdir peppered throughout the Common.mk and some of the project specific makefiles. Recently a mkdir "guard" like pattern was added in eks-anywhere's Makefile. I think we could come up with a single generic target that will create whatever dir "passed" to it and maybe this could result in a nice cleanup?

Note: do not take this suggestion as def being the way to go, this is meant as an exploration just to see how the end result could look. Why is this needed: