Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think it would be possible to restrict the GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS to be > generated during a build phase, so restructuring the Makefile like: > > install: build > all:: build GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS > build: ... If you did: make prefix=$HOME all make prefix=/usr install then the second step needs to notice that the gitexecdir computed and stored in exec_cmd.o in the first step is now invalid, and needs to recompile the file. The whole purpose of GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS is to detect such a case---doesn't your change defeat it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html