Re: [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: use `git ls-files` to list header files, if possible

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2019, 05:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzhq9vpik.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190304214155.GB3347@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> This makes sense to me, though as you noted elsewhere, it doesn't fix
> the gcrypt problem, since that file unconditionally wants to look at the
> system gcrypt.h (and we control at the Makefile level whether we
> actually look at sha256/gcrypt.h).

Hmm, is that because the header check target does not know which *.h files we ship are actually used in a particular build?

After a normal build, with dynamic dependency checking on, we would have sufficient information to figure it out. Would that help?

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