From: Giuseppe Crino' <giuscri@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:00:46 GMT
Subject: Re: How to build to debug with gdb?
Message-ID: <20190828110046.GB4450@instance-template-2.europe-west6-a.c.vaulted-journal-250706.internal>
In-Reply-To: <20190828103217.GA6400@szeder.dev>

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:32:17PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> I don't think it's unusual at all that the 'install' target depends on
> 'all'.  A quick and incomprehensive survey of Makefiles from a few
> open source projects that I happen to have lying around seems to
> confirm this.
> 
> What might be unusual (but is rather convenient for developers) is
> that Git's build process checks the build flags, and rebuilds the
> whole thing after the flags changed.

Maybe I'm biased by my incompetence with Makefile's but since rebuilding
the project with `install` but different flags from the first make is
unusual this is worth mentioning to developers.