Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Makefile: fix lint-docs mkdir dependency

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

There's an in-between, I'd think, where the many "foo/bar/baz/$@"
targets have an order-dependency on "foo/bar/baz", and that single rule
uses "mkdir -p" to create all of the directories.

It doesn't buy us much simplification in this case, though, because
various rules independently depend on .build/gitlink/lint-docs/howto,
.built/gitlink/lint-docs, and .build/gitlink, etc. So we still end up
with roughly the same number of rules, though the directory rules don't
have to depend on one another.

It also means that these "mkdir -p" may race with each other, though in
general I'd hope that most "mkdir" implements could handle this.

Something like this works, I think:

Hmph, what I actually meant was to make sure that the recipe to
create the files to have "mkdir -p $(basename $@)" in front, instead
of having "we need to prepare the containing directory in order to
have a file there" in the makefile.

...
At any rate, I don't think there's any urgency on that.

Sure.  I think I've picked up the one at the start of this thread
already, so we should be good.

Thanks.