generic debian/rules that creates directories

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Is it possible to have a generic debian/rules that creates directories? 

The upstream Makefiles was not designed to install into $DESTDIR but 
to /, so it assumes /usr/bin exists, while that creates problems for me:

  install -s -m 755 autogb /export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/zh-
autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin
  install: cannot create regular file '/export/build/zh-autoconvert/bld/
zh-autoconvert-0.3.16/debian/tmp/usr/bin': No such file or directory

Is it possible to alter the following `debian/rules` file so that it 
plays nicely with such upstream Makefiles? 

Thanks


$ cat debian/rules 
#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-
# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
#
# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-
make.
#
# Modified to make a template file for a multi-binary package with 
separated
# build-arch and build-indep targets  by Bill Allombert 2001

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1

# This has to be exported to make some magic below work.
export DH_OPTIONS


%:
        dh $@