On platforms with $X, make removes any leftover scripts 'a' from
earlier builds if a new binary 'a.exe' is now built. However, on
cygwin 1.7.0, 'git' and 'git.exe' now consistently name the same file.
Test for file equality before attempting a remove, in order to avoid
nuking just-built binaries.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>
---
On cygwin 1.5.x, a script 'a' and binary 'a.exe' could co-exist in the same
directory, and exec'ing 'a' tended to favor the script over the binary -
problematic for the case where incremental building in an existing git checkout
picks up a switch from a script to a builtin. Likewise, 'rm -f a' refused to
remove 'a.exe', so it was a no-op if there was no script 'a', hence the
addition of a $X-specific rule to nuke those stale scripts.
But the .exe handling will change in cygwin 1.7.0 (to be released later this
year), where it is much harder to create 'a' and 'a.exe' as distinct files ('a'
is automatically removed if 'a.exe' is created); and 'rm -f a' now succeeds at
removing 'a.exe' if there is no 'a'. But this means Makefile's $X-specific
rule to kill old scripts now nukes the just built binary files:
$ make
...
BUILTIN git-status.exe
BUILTIN git-whatchanged.exe
rm -f 'git-fast-import'; ... rm -f 'git-status'; rm -f 'git-whatchanged';
rm -f 'git';
SUBDIR git-gui
...
$ ls git
ls: cannot access git: No such file or directory
and all the hard work of building is lost, on every attempt to build. All
platforms that have $X should have a test(1) that understands -ef.
Makefile | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fcff2a4..ca418fc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ SHELL = $(SHELL_PATH)
all:: shell_compatibility_test $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS) $(OTHER_PROGRAMS)
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
ifneq (,$X)
- $(foreach p,$(patsubst %$X,%,$(filter %$X,$(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS)
git$X)), $(RM) '$p';)
+ $(foreach p,$(patsubst %$X,%,$(filter %$X,$(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS)
git$X)), test '$p' -ef '$p$X' || $(RM) '$p';)
endif
all::
--
1.5.6.4
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