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
