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

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> "
>
PS: it does not remove the need to delete the file, but at least that
would simply the cut-in-piece gymanstic.

> Norbert