Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> By the way, I really started hating that we have $(GIT_VERSION)
>> in $(TRACK_CFLAGS). Since the version string is tied to the
>> HEAD commit object name, having it in $(TRACK_CFLAGS) means that
>> every time I switch branches, make a new commit on top of the
>> current branch, or checkout-compile-and-then-make-local-change
>> sequence would force pretty much everything to be rebuilt.
>...
>> For that matter, I do not think tracking prefix_SQ makes much
>> sense since what matters are bindir, gitexecdir and template_dir
>> which are already covered, and prefix is merely a convenience to
>> set these three (four, counting GIT_PYTHON_DIR; we probably
>> should add it to TRACK_CFLAGS).
>
> Yes, only ALL_CFLAGS, bindir, gitexecdir, template_dir and
> GIT_PYTHON_DIR should be in TRACK_CFLAGS.
Exactly my thinking. Let's do it like this, then.
-- >8 --
Makefile: do not force unneeded recompilation upon GIT_VERSION changes
---
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 55a84d4..d45f3dc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ tags:
find . -name '*.[hcS]' -print | xargs ctags -a
### Detect prefix changes
-TRACK_CFLAGS = $(subst ','\'',$(ALL_CFLAGS)):$(GIT_VERSION):\
+TRACK_CFLAGS = $(subst ','\'',$(ALL_CFLAGS)):$(GIT_PYTHON_DIR_SQ):\
$(bindir_SQ):$(gitexecdir_SQ):$(template_dir_SQ):$(prefix_SQ)
GIT-CFLAGS: .FORCE-GIT-CFLAGS
-
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