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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Windows: force-recompile git.res for differing architectures

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Nov 6, 2018, 21:44 UTC
Message-ID
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Am 06.11.18 um 15:55 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget:
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> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> When git.rc is compiled into git.res, the result is actually dependent
> on the architecture. That is, you cannot simply link a 32-bit git.res
> into a 64-bit git.exe.
> 
> Therefore, to allow 32-bit and 64-bit builds in the same directory, we
> let git.res depend on GIT-PREFIX so that it gets recompiled when
> compiling for a different architecture (this works because the exec path
> changes based on the architecture: /mingw32/libexec/git-core for 32-bit
> and /mingw64/libexec/git-core for 64-bit).

On Linux, when I recompile for a different architecture, CFLAGS would change, so I would have thought that GIT-CFLAGS were the natural choice for a dependency. Don't they change in this case on Windows, too?

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> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>   Makefile | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index bbfbb4292d..8375736c32 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -2110,7 +2110,7 @@ $(SCRIPT_LIB) : % : %.sh GIT-SCRIPT-DEFINES
>   	$(QUIET_GEN)$(cmd_munge_script) && \
>   	mv $@+ $@
>   
> -git.res: git.rc GIT-VERSION-FILE
> +git.res: git.rc GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT-PREFIX
>   	$(QUIET_RC)$(RC) \
>   	  $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR= -DMICRO= -DPATCHLEVEL=, $(wordlist 1, 4, \
>   	    $(shell echo $(GIT_VERSION) 0 0 0 0 | tr '.a-zA-Z-' ' '))) \
> 
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  3. Johannes SixtNov 6, 2018
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 7, 2018
  5. Johannes SixtNov 7, 2018
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 7, 2018
  7. Johannes SchindelinNov 7, 2018

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