Re: [PATCH 8/8] Makefiles: add and use wildcard "mkdir -p" template
From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-17 06:09:42
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:40 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] wrote:
[...] But as it turns out we can use this neat trick of only doing a "mkdir -p" if the $(wildcard) macro tells us the path doesn't exist. A re-run of a performance test similar to thatnoted downthread of [1] in [2] shows that this is faster, in addition to being less verbose and more reliable (this uses my "git-hyperfine" thin wrapper for "hyperfine"[3]):
s/thatnoted/that noted/
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted> ---diff --git a/shared.mak b/shared.mak@@ -90,3 +92,18 @@ ifndef V +## Is racy, but in a good way; we might redundantly (and safely) +## "mkdir -p" when running in parallel, but won't need to exhaustively +## individual rules for "a" -> "prefix" -> "dir" -> "file" if given a +## "a/prefix/dir/file". This can instead be inserted at the start of +## the "a/prefix/dir/file" rule.
Is there a word missing between "exhaustively" and "individual"?