The 'clean' target is still noticeably slow on cygwin, despite the improvements made by previous patches. For example, the second invocation of 'make clean' below: $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1 $ make clean GIT_VERSION = 2.29.0.7.g273f7f9394 ... $ has been timed at 6.430s on my laptop (on old core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD). Notice that the 'clean' target is still causing the $(GIT_VERSION) make variable to be set (executing the GIT-VERSION-GEN script in the process). However, the last few commits have removed all dependency on the $(GIT_VERSION) variable from the 'clean' target. The calculation of the git version, in order to set this variable, is thus wasted effort. In order to eliminate such wasted effort, use the value of the internal $(MAKECMDGOALS) variable to only '-include GIT-VERSION-FILE' when the target is not 'clean'. (This drops the time down to 4.064s, on my laptop, giving an improvement of 36.80%). Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index bc9ce28bc3..ca65259e10 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -502,7 +502,9 @@ all:: GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE @$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN +ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),clean) -include GIT-VERSION-FILE +endif # Set our default configuration. # -- 2.29.0
