On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:32:17PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > I don't think it's unusual at all that the 'install' target depends on > 'all'. A quick and incomprehensive survey of Makefiles from a few > open source projects that I happen to have lying around seems to > confirm this. > > What might be unusual (but is rather convenient for developers) is > that Git's build process checks the build flags, and rebuilds the > whole thing after the flags changed. Maybe I'm biased by my incompetence with Makefile's but since rebuilding the project with `install` but different flags from the first make is unusual this is worth mentioning to developers.
