Since commit 7620f21ff98 (makefiles: Generate the wow64 symlinks from makedep., 2025-02-18), makedep generates a symlink target for "<wine64_dir>/loader-wow64". This causes <wine64-dir> to be added as an "ignore path," ultimately leading to create_file_directories() and then create_dir().
create_dir() only expects relative paths. If it's passed an absolute path, it will recognize the "/" prefix as an empty path component followed by slash, and will attempt to mkdir(""), which fails.
Fix this by skipping initial slashes in create_dir().
Fixes: 7620f21ff98a85249b0b110bcba9953b32763f28