On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:25:44AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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. It seems I am late to the party. But FWIW, this looks the most sane to me of the patches posted in this thread. -Peff -- 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