Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:01:10AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> I noticed the Makefile already doesn't do this sort of thing for >> mandir and htmldir, but do you think changes to SHELL_PATH should be >> tracked to force a rebuild when it changes? > > Yeah, that would be nice. Thanks. On second thought, without the corresponding tracking for PERL_PATH, USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME, localedir, etc, it doesn't seem worth it. > In general, I wish adding these sorts of dependencies wasn't so manual > and painful. I'm not sure of a good solution short of totally retooling > our build system, though. The Linux kernel build system has an interesting solution to this. It keeps track of the command line used to build each file and forces a rebuild when that command changes. Ciao, Jonathan -- 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