Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Since 8650c6298c (doc lint: make "lint-docs" non-.PHONY, 2021-10-15), we > put the output for gitlink linter into .build/lint-docs/gitlink. There > are order-only dependencies to create the sequence of subdirs like: > > .build/lint-docs: | .build > $(QUIET)mkdir $@ > .build/lint-docs/gitlink: | .build/lint-docs > $(QUIET)mkdir $@ > > where each level has to depend on the prior one (since the parent > directory must exist for us to create something inside it). But the > "howto" and "config" subdirectories of gitlink have the wrong > dependency; they depend on "lint-docs", not "lint-docs/gitlink". Thanks. I wonder if we can somehow avoid this unwieldy chain of commands, perhaps with using "mkdir -p" somewhere, or make the lint scripts create the necessary leading paths. From the looks of the tail end of Documentation/Makefile, the latter may be the cleaner solution.
