diff --git a/src/Makefile_Emotion.am b/src/Makefile_Emotion.am
index 72c0d2df59..33e816744a 100644
--- a/src/Makefile_Emotion.am
+++ b/src/Makefile_Emotion.am
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ lib/ecore_evas/libecore_evas.la \
 lib/edje/libedje.la
 
 tests/emotion/data/theme.edj: tests/emotion/data/theme.edc bin/edje/edje_cc
+	@$(MKDIR_P) tests/emotion/data
 	$(AM_V_EDJ)$(EDJE_CC) $(EDJE_CC_FLAGS) -id $(srcdir)/tests/emotion/data $< $@
 
 EMOTION_DATA_FILES = \