Timo Buhrmester <fstd.lkml@???> writes:
>> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory
>> To mention this again: The way to tell git (or any other SCM I've
>> encountered so far) that an empty directory exists for a reason is to
>> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. I
>> usually use a file named .keep because it then doesn't show up in
>> directory listings.
> Why should the repository have to remember a build system detail?

Because the build system is part of the code. You're - apart from that -
completely free to use any software in whatever way you consider
convenient and other people are - gasp - as free to do likewise.