Re: [PATCH] Makefile: make COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES=auto work with DEVOPTS=pedantic

> 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)?