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[PATCH v2 3/5] gitweb/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE

From
Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2020, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID
<f96f5cf3-713f-5c89-d486-e1a3f1c97b07@ramsayjones.plus.com>

The 'clean' target is still noticeably slow on cygwin, despite the improvements made by previous patches. For example, the second invocation of 'make clean' below:

  $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1
  $ make clean
  ...
  make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git/gitweb'
  make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git'
  make[2]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ramsay/git'
  ...
  $

has been timed at 10.361s on my laptop (on old core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD).

Notice that the 'clean' target is making a nested call to the parent Makefile to ensure that the GIT-VERSION-FILE is up-to-date. This is to ensure that the $(GIT_VERSION) make variable is set, once that file had been included. However, the 'clean' target does not use the $(GIT_VERSION) variable, so this is wasted effort.

In order to eliminate such wasted effort, use the value of the internal $(MAKECMDGOALS) variable to only '-include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE' when the target is not 'clean'. (This drops the time down to 8.430s, on my laptop, giving an improvement of 18.64%).

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
---
 gitweb/Makefile | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gitweb/Makefile b/gitweb/Makefile
index cd194d057f..f13e23c4de 100644
--- a/gitweb/Makefile
+++ b/gitweb/Makefile
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ HIGHLIGHT_BIN = highlight
 ../GIT-VERSION-FILE: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE
 	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)../ $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) GIT-VERSION-FILE
 
+ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),clean)
 -include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE
+endif
 
 ### Build rules
 
-- 
2.29.0
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