Hi,
I use autoconf with git.git. I have noticed lately, especially when
doing things like "git rebase -i --exec make", that ./configure is run
every time. If I understand correctly, this is because of 8242ff4
(build: reconfigure automatically if configure.ac changes,
2012-07-19). Just a few days before that commit, on 2012-07-15, the
branch jn/makefile-cleanup including 520a6cd (Makefile: move
GIT-VERSION-FILE dependencies closer to use, 2012-06-20) was merged
(to next?). I wonder if these two subjects were aware of each other.
The reason 'configure' depends on GIT-VERSION-FILE is because it
inserts the version into the call to AC_INIT. I have close to no
experience with autoconf or even make and it's not at all clear to me
why we need to pass the verison to AC_INIT. It seems like it's just
for messages printed by ./configure. If that's the case, we shouldn't
need to generate a new 'configure' file ever time. At the very least,
we shouldn't need to run it.
Do you think we should simply remove the dependency from 'configure'
to 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' and leave a comment there instead? Or should we
instead somehow make 'reconfigure' depend only on 'configure.ac'? Both
of these feel a little wrong to me, because they would remove real
dependencies. Maybe the (probably mangled) patch at the end of this
message is better?
Martin
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 736ecd4..ec5d7ca 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2267,12 +2267,9 @@ $(patsubst %.py,%,$(SCRIPT_PYTHON)): % : unimplemented.sh
mv $@+ $@
endif # NO_PYTHON
-configure: configure.ac GIT-VERSION-FILE
- $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ $<+ && \
- sed -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \
- $< > $<+ && \
- autoconf -o $@ $<+ && \
- $(RM) $<+
+configure: configure.ac
+ $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ && \
+ autoconf -o $@ $<
ifdef AUTOCONFIGURED
config.status: configure
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ad215cc..00c3e38 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -142,7 +142,10 @@ fi
## Configure body starts here.
AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT([git], [@@GIT_VERSION@@], [git@vger.kernel.org])
+AC_INIT([git],
+ m4_esyscmd([ ./GIT-VERSION-GEN &&
+ { sed -ne 's/GIT_VERSION = //p' GIT-VERSION-FILE
| xargs echo -n; } ]),
+ [git@vger.kernel.org])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([git.c])
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