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

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.