Hi Ramsay & Peff, On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 02:37:58AM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > > Hmm, well, you have to remember that 'make clean' sometimes doesn't > > make clean. Ever since the Makefile was changed to only remove > > $(OBJECTS), rather than *.o xdiff/*.o etc., you have to remember to > > 'make clean' _before_ you switch branches. Otherwise, you risk leaving > > some objects laying around. Since the script runs 'nm' on all objects > > it finds, any stale ones can cause problems. (Of course, I almost > > always forget, so I frequently have to manually check for and remove > > stale objects!) > > Gross. I would not be opposed to a Makefile rule that outputs the > correct set of OBJECTS so this (or other) scripts could build on it. You could also use the method I use in Git for Windows to "extend" the Makefile: -- snipsnap -- cat >dummy.mak <<EOF include Makefile blub: $(OBJECTS) do-something-with $^ EOF make -f dummy.mak blub