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[PATCH v3 2/6] Makefile: drop unneeded indirection for GIT-VERSION-GEN outputs

From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
Dec 20, 2024, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20241220-b4-pks-git-version-via-environment-v3-2-1fd79b52a5fb@pks.im>
In-Reply-To
<20241220-b4-pks-git-version-via-environment-v3-0-1fd79b52a5fb@pks.im>

Some of the callsites of GIT-VERSION-GEN generate the target file with a "+" suffix first and then move the file into place when the new contents are different compared to the old contents. This allows us to avoid a needless rebuild by not updating timestamps of the target file when its contents will remain unchanged anyway.

In fact though, this exact logic is already handled in GIT-VERSION-GEN, so doing this manually is pointless. This is a leftover from an earlier version of 4838deab65 (Makefile: refactor GIT-VERSION-GEN to be reusable, 2024-12-06), where the script didn't handle that logic for us.

Drop the needless indirection.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 Documentation/Makefile | 6 ++----
 Makefile               | 6 ++----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 44c9e9369a11a6a5091079b7221a085b2f08e6cd..1a398d0dc359671d461fceb7a1636268a51411da 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -211,12 +211,10 @@ XMLTO_EXTRA += --skip-validation
 XMLTO_EXTRA += -x manpage.xsl
 
 asciidoctor-extensions.rb: asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in FORCE
-	$(QUIET_GEN)GIT_USER_AGENT="$(GIT_USER_AGENT)" $(SHELL_PATH) ../GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)/.." $< $@+
-	@if cmp $@+ $@ >/dev/null 2>&1; then $(RM) $@+; else mv $@+ $@; fi
+	$(QUIET_GEN)GIT_USER_AGENT="$(GIT_USER_AGENT)" $(SHELL_PATH) ../GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)/.." $< $@
 else
 asciidoc.conf: asciidoc.conf.in FORCE
-	$(QUIET_GEN)GIT_USER_AGENT="$(GIT_USER_AGENT)" $(SHELL_PATH) ../GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)/.." $< $@+
-	@if cmp $@+ $@ >/dev/null 2>&1; then $(RM) $@+; else mv $@+ $@; fi
+	$(QUIET_GEN)GIT_USER_AGENT="$(GIT_USER_AGENT)" $(SHELL_PATH) ../GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)/.." $< $@
 endif
 
 ASCIIDOC_DEPS += docinfo.html
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 79739a13d2132204f56b1ef4ca879bd51c5164b4..695a9d9765daf864605002d572129bae7a8c4e40 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2512,8 +2512,7 @@ pager.sp pager.s pager.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 	-DPAGER_ENV='$(PAGER_ENV_CQ_SQ)'
 
 version-def.h: version-def.h.in GIT-VERSION-GEN GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT-USER-AGENT
-	$(QUIET_GEN)GIT_USER_AGENT="$(GIT_USER_AGENT)" $(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)" $< $@+
-	@if cmp $@+ $@ >/dev/null 2>&1; then $(RM) $@+; else mv $@+ $@; fi
+	$(QUIET_GEN)GIT_USER_AGENT="$(GIT_USER_AGENT)" $(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)" $< $@
 
 version.sp version.s version.o: version-def.h
 
@@ -2554,8 +2553,7 @@ $(SCRIPT_SH_GEN) $(SCRIPT_LIB) : % : %.sh generate-script.sh GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS G
 	mv $@+ $@
 
 git.rc: git.rc.in GIT-VERSION-GEN GIT-VERSION-FILE
-	$(QUIET_GEN)$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)" $< $@+
-	@if cmp $@+ $@ >/dev/null 2>&1; then $(RM) $@+; else mv $@+ $@; fi
+	$(QUIET_GEN)$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN "$(shell pwd)" $< $@
 
 git.res: git.rc GIT-PREFIX
 	$(QUIET_RC)$(RC) -i $< -o $@
-- 
2.48.0.rc0.184.g0fc57dec57.dirty
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  24. 4/5 Makefile: respect build info declared in "config.mak"Patrick Steinhardt, Dec 20, 2024
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  36. 0/6 GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding valuesPatrick Steinhardt, Dec 20, 2024
  37. 1/6 Makefile: stop including "GIT-VERSION-FILE" in docsPatrick Steinhardt, Dec 20, 2024
  38. 2/6 Makefile: drop unneeded indirection for GIT-VERSION-GEN outputsPatrick Steinhardt, Dec 20, 2024
  39. 3/6 Makefile: introduce template for GIT-VERSION-GENPatrick Steinhardt, Dec 20, 2024
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