On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:38:21PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > That's because LIB_H is created by running find in the local filesystem. > So until it's generated, we don't realize it's there to check. I kind of > wonder if it should be part of LIB_H. I suspect that on some systems, > we'd fail to notice a rebuild when command-list.txt is updated (but > nobody noticed, because it is only systems that do not have > compiler-supported dependency tracking, and most developers are no > modern platforms that do). Actually, this probably isn't true. We have an explicit dependency for help.o on command-list.h, so it would get built properly then. Its inclusion in LIB_H is still wonky, though. It sometimes is included and sometimes not, depending on whether ls-files or find is used. -Peff
