[PATCH wayland v4 1/5] build/doc: Ensure destination dir exists despite VPATH

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 17:46, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 August 2018 at 23:19, Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com> wrote:
> > Change the alldirs target list to be absolute paths, so VPATH will not
> > be consulted and defeat the entire point of what we're trying to do.
> > This fixes the Meson build, where we later create
> > doc/doxygen/xml/meson.build.
> >
> Have you tried something as trivial as the below sed?
> s/$(AM_V_GEN)/$(AM_V_GEN)$(MKDIR_P) $@/g

I assume you mean '$(dir $@)' here.

> It will allow you to remove the, dare I say it, bonkers "let's make a
> target that only creates a folder".
> Plus avoid all the complexity that you've proposing.

Sure. I was trying to work within what was already there rather than
rewrite the Makefile, given how fragile the entire thing is, but I've
now rewritten the commit.

Cheers,
Daniel