Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Anyway, here is the patch to fix the loop. > > -- >8 -- > Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: avoid infinite loop on configure.ac change > > If you are using autoconf and change the configure.ac, the > Makefile will notice that config.status is older than > configure.ac, and will attempt to rebuild and re-run the > configure script to pick up your changes. The first step in > doing so is to run "make configure". Unfortunately, this > tries to include config.mak.autogen, which depends on > config.status, which depends on configure.ac; so we must > rebuild config.status. Which leads to us running "make > configure", and so on. > > It's easy to demonstrate with: > > make configure > ./configure > touch configure.ac > make > > We can break this cycle by not re-invoking make to build > "configure", and instead just putting its rules inline into > our config.status rebuild procedure. We can avoid a copy by > factoring the rules into a make variable. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- Thanks. This needs to go to both v1.8.1.x and v1.8.2. Will apply. > Makefile | 14 ++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 3b2c92c..ee1c0b0 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -1871,12 +1871,14 @@ configure: configure.ac GIT-VERSION-FILE > mv $@+ $@ > endif # NO_PYTHON > > +CONFIGURE_RECIPE = $(RM) configure configure.ac+ && \ > + sed -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \ > + configure.ac >configure.ac+ && \ > + autoconf -o configure configure.ac+ && \ > + $(RM) configure.ac+ > + > configure: configure.ac GIT-VERSION-FILE > - $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ $<+ && \ > - sed -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \ > - $< > $<+ && \ > - autoconf -o $@ $<+ && \ > - $(RM) $<+ > + $(QUIET_GEN)$(CONFIGURE_RECIPE) > > ifdef AUTOCONFIGURED > # We avoid depending on 'configure' here, because it gets rebuilt > @@ -1885,7 +1887,7 @@ config.status: configure.ac > # do want to recheck when the platform/environment detection logic > # changes, hence this depends on configure.ac. > config.status: configure.ac > - $(QUIET_GEN)$(MAKE) configure && \ > + $(QUIET_GEN)$(CONFIGURE_RECIPE) && \ > if test -f config.status; then \ > ./config.status --recheck; \ > else \ -- 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