The default user-agent depends on the GIT_VERSION, which means that anytime you switch versions, it causes a full rebuild. Instead, let's split it out into its own file and restrict the dependency to version.o. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- This can't just depend on GIT-VERSION-FILE, since the user may have set GIT_USER_AGENT independently, and we would want to trigger a rebuild in that case. I'm not happy about adding an extra built file and 4 lines of ugly shell script per variable, but I don't see a good way around it. It would be slightly nicer if we actually just built auto/user-agent.h with the value, #included it from version.c, and then let the automatic dependency checker pick it up. But we'd still have to do the "only update it if the value is actually changed" dance. I've worked on systems in the past which use a file per variable, which lets make handle the dependencies normally. Something like: $ echo my-value >config/foo $ cat Makefile auto/foo.o: config/foo ./build-cstr $< but that is a radical departure from the current config procedure. It also doesn't play all that well with version control (are config/* files versioned? If not, where do the defaults come from? If so, how do you override without the vcs wanting to commit changes?). We are pretty well tied to GNU make. So there might be some GNU-specific way of templating GIT-CFLAGS, GIT-LDFLAGS, GIT-USER-AGENT etc. .gitignore | 1 + Makefile | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index bf66648..7329cfe 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ /GIT-CFLAGS /GIT-LDFLAGS /GIT-GUI-VARS +/GIT-USER-AGENT /GIT-VERSION-FILE /bin-wrappers/ /git diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 537d2ea..42ce2dd 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1924,7 +1924,11 @@ endif GIT_USER_AGENT_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(GIT_USER_AGENT)) GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ = "$(subst ",\",$(subst \,\\,$(GIT_USER_AGENT)))" GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ)) -BASIC_CFLAGS += -DGIT_USER_AGENT='$(GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ_SQ)' +GIT-USER-AGENT: FORCE + @if test x'$(GIT_USER_AGENT_SQ)' != x"`cat GIT-USER-AGENT 2>/dev/null`"; then \ + echo >&2 " * new user-agent flag"; \ + echo '$(GIT_USER_AGENT_SQ)' >GIT-USER-AGENT; \ + fi ALL_CFLAGS += $(BASIC_CFLAGS) ALL_LDFLAGS += $(BASIC_LDFLAGS) @@ -1990,8 +1994,10 @@ builtin/help.sp builtin/help.s builtin/help.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \ '-DGIT_MAN_PATH="$(mandir_SQ)"' \ '-DGIT_INFO_PATH="$(infodir_SQ)"' +version.sp version.s version.o: GIT-USER-AGENT version.sp version.s version.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \ - '-DGIT_VERSION="$(GIT_VERSION)"' + '-DGIT_VERSION="$(GIT_VERSION)"' \ + '-DGIT_USER_AGENT=$(GIT_USER_AGENT_CQ_SQ)' $(BUILT_INS): git$X $(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(RM) $@ && \ -- 1.7.11.rc3.5.g201460b -- 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