From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: make COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES=auto work with DEVOPTS=pedantic
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:03:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo88k40pd.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUuPYDkxjDIvIfwI@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:17:36 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I almost suggested using "git.c" as the dummy file, since we know it
> must compile anyway. But that probably has other problems (it's more
> expensive, and if it _does_ have an error, the results may be
> confusing).
>
> It's a shame we can't just try to do the _real_ compiles using the
> auto-dependency stuff, and then fall back if they fail. But I think
> there's a chicken-and-egg problem there with "make" doing real work, and
> figuring out the dependencies to do real work.
Yeah, if compiling any of the real sources is inexpensive enough, I
would think that would be the happy way to go. Do we have a trivial
source that almost never changes? Perhaps version.c (especially if
we kick out two helper functions that do not really belong there)?
> ...
> I'm happy to submit that on top, or even turn the earlier hunk into a
> patch. But let's see what Ævar has to say to what's been discussed so
> far. I don't want to derail his effort.
Yup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-23 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 10:38 [PATCH] Makefile: make COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES=auto work with DEVOPTS=pedantic Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-22 10:55 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-22 11:04 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-22 16:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-22 17:04 ` Jeff King
2021-09-22 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-22 18:44 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-22 20:17 ` Jeff King
2021-09-22 20:36 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-22 22:40 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-23 17:32 ` Jeff King
2021-09-23 0:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-09-23 16:20 ` Jeff King
2021-09-23 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-22 19:45 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-22 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Makefile: "pedantic" fallout on .depend and "compdb" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-22 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: make COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES=auto work with DEVOPTS=pedantic Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-22 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Makefile: pass -Wno-pendantic under GENERATE_COMPILATION_DATABASE=yes Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-23 0:05 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-23 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-23 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Makefile: "pedantic" fallout on .depend and "compdb" Jeff King
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