From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:38:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] build: do not automatically reconfigure unless configure.ac changed
Message-ID: <20130102083837.GA9328@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130102082544.GD18974@elie.Belkin>

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:25:44AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Starting with v1.7.12-rc0~4^2 (build: reconfigure automatically if
> configure.ac changes, 2012-07-19), configure is automatically run
> every time the "configure" script changes.  In particular, that
> means configure is automatically rerun whenever the version number
> changes (which changes the configure script to support "./configure
> --helpe"), which makes bisecting painfully slow.
> 
> The intent was to make the reconfiguration process only trigger for
> changes to configure.ac's logic.  Tweak the Makefile rule to match
> that intent by depending on configure.ac instead of configure.

It seems I am late to the party. But FWIW, this looks the most sane to
me of the patches posted in this thread.

-Peff