Re: problems in Emacs with GL_GENERATE_STDINT_H

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I installed that patch 
> into Gnulib in your name, and updated the Emacs master branch 
> accordingly here:
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f05a93e8232e6f56458ac16d733b03e96a63e930

Glad to hear that it worked fine.

> One thing I noticed in that web page is a lot of lines that look like this:
> 
> +     $(MKDIR_P) '.' && \
> 
> Would it be possible to remove those?

These $(MKDIR_P) invocations don't cost much, because
  - there are not that many of them (at most 25 per build),
  - on most platforms nowadays 'mkdir -p' is used, as opposed to
    the slow 'install.sh' script.

It would be possible to replace, in the module descriptions:

        $(MKDIR_P) '%reldir%' && \

with

        { test '%reldir%' = '.' || $(MKDIR_P) '%reldir%'; } && \

It's a micro-optimization. A trade-off between execution speed and
readability.

My vote would be to leave it as is.

Bruno