offapi again builds faster; user of gb_Deliver_deliver responsible for the directory

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> the first thing i'd like to see added to make is a function to create a
> response file that is automatically deleted (a feature that dmake has),
> to get rid of the (necessarily) horrible Tempfile.mk.

actually, fromthe gnu-make ML:
"
A new function $(file ...) has been implemented for the next release which
allows writing its argument to a file, in either overwrite or append mode.
"

Norbert