Does the Perl cons build tool skip targets containing dotnames?

I want to create a directory in the target area with开发者_运维百科 one file. I'm observing that if any of the segments in the target path starts with a ".", cons quietly fails to create the target.

Anyone know how I can get around this? The mailing list looks dead -- the last email in the mailman archive was sent in 2008/10 . I've sent an email to the current maintainer, but given how moribund the site looks, I'm not sure he's still around.

Unfortunately, switching to Rake currently isn't an option. I'm trying to hit a deadline tonight.