Makefiles: add and use wildcard "mkdir -p" template

Add a template to do the "mkdir -p" of $(@D) (the parent dir of $@) for us, and use it for the "make lint-docs" targets I added in 8650c6298c1 (doc lint: make "lint-docs" non-.PHONY, 2021-10-15). As seen in 4c64fb5aad9 (Documentation/Makefile: fix lint-docs mkdir dependency, 2021-10-26) maintaining these manual lists of parent directory dependencies is fragile, in addition to being obviously verbose. I used this pattern at the time because I couldn't find another method than "order-only" prerequisites to avoid doing a "mkdir -p $(@D)" for every file being created, which as noted in [1] would be significantly slower. But as it turns out we can use this neat trick of only doing a "mkdir -p" if the $(wildcard) macro tells us the path doesn't exist. A re-run of a performance test similar to that noted downthread of [1] in [2] shows that this is faster, in addition to being less verbose and more reliable (this uses my "git-hyperfine" thin wrapper for "hyperfine"[3]): $ git -c hyperfine.hook.setup= hyperfine -L rev HEAD~1,HEAD~0 -s 'make -C Documentation lint-docs' -p 'rm -rf Documentation/.build' 'make -C Documentation -j1 lint-docs' Benchmark 1: make -C Documentation -j1 lint-docs' in 'HEAD~1 Time (mean ± σ): 2.914 s ± 0.062 s [User: 2.449 s, System: 0.489 s] Range (min … max): 2.834 s … 3.020 s 10 runs Benchmark 2: make -C Documentation -j1 lint-docs' in 'HEAD~0 Time (mean ± σ): 2.315 s ± 0.062 s [User: 1.950 s, System: 0.386 s] Range (min … max): 2.229 s … 2.397 s 10 runs Summary 'make -C Documentation -j1 lint-docs' in 'HEAD~0' ran 1.26 ± 0.04 times faster than 'make -C Documentation -j1 lint-docs' in 'HEAD~1' So let's use that pattern both for the "lint-docs" target, and a few miscellaneous other targets. This method of creating parent directories is explicitly racy in that we don't know if we're going to say always create a "foo" followed by a "foo/bar" under parallelism, or skip the "foo" because we created "foo/bar" first. In this case it doesn't matter for anything except that we aren't guaranteed to get the same number of rules firing when running make in parallel. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/211028.861r45y3pt.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/ 2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/211028.86o879vvtp.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/ 3. https://gitlab.com/avar/git-hyperfine/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>