Starting with v1.7.12-rc0~4^2 (build: reconfigure automatically if configure.ac changes, 2012-07-19), configure is automatically run every time the "configure" script changes. In particular, that means configure is automatically rerun whenever the version number changes (which changes the configure script to support "./configure --helpe"), which makes bisecting painfully slow. The intent was to make the reconfiguration process only trigger for changes to configure.ac's logic. Tweak the Makefile rule to match that intent by depending on configure.ac instead of configure. Reported-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Martin von Zweigbergk wrote: > The next line just outside the context here does depend on > 'configure', which is why I thought this would not be right. Yes, the 'configure' script that is run needs to reflect the changes to configure.ac. Hopefully this version will work better. Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 736ecd45..be3bbcd4 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2275,10 +2275,11 @@ configure: configure.ac GIT-VERSION-FILE $(RM) $<+ ifdef AUTOCONFIGURED -config.status: configure +config.status: configure.ac $(QUIET_GEN)if test -f config.status; then \ ./config.status --recheck; \ else \ + $(MAKE) configure && \ ./configure; \ fi reconfigure config.mak.autogen: config.status -- 1.8.1 -- 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