Re: [PATCH 3/6] Makefile: refactor out "ln || ln -s || cp" pattern

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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Nice.  These explicit command-line options to the helper may be
harder to initially write and maintain than just exporting the
relevant $(MAKE) macros and using it from the helper, but once
it works correctly, it is much easier to see what is going on.

Another option is to make "ln-or-cp" itself a target that "make" knows
how to build, and bake the values into its "built" version.

Aha.  That is even nicer ;-).