Fredrik Kuivinen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 21:00, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I wonder if we can make do with a faster check, like >> >> $(CC) -c -MF /dev/null -MMD -MP git.c --help >/dev/null 2>&1 >> >> What do you think? [...] > Without patch (with COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES=Yes): The case to compare against is when COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES is not set, I'd think, since that is the status quo. And I was talking about commands like "make clean" that do not care about that feature, not "make all". [...] > With patch, but changed to use git.c instead of ++empty.c: Did you try with "--help"? -- 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