build: do not automatically reconfigure unless configure.ac changed

Starting with v1.7.12-rc0~4^2 (build: reconfigure automatically if configure.ac changes, 2012-07-19), "config.status --recheck" is automatically run every time the "configure" script changes. In particular, that means the configuration procedure repeats whenever the version number changes (since the configure script changes to support "./configure --version" and "./configure --help"), making bisecting painfully slow. The intent was to make the reconfiguration process only trigger for changes to configure.ac's logic. Tweak the Makefile rule to match that intent by depending on configure.ac instead of configure. Reported-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jonathan Nieder committed Jan 2, 2013 at 00:25 UTC 122650457a619a6572c358ba9605a798ac771274
1 file changed +8 -2
Makefile
+8 -2
@@ -2167,8 +2167,14 @@ configure: configure.ac GIT-VERSION-FILE
2167 $(RM) $<+
2168
2169 ifdef AUTOCONFIGURED
2170 -config.status: configure
2171 - $(QUIET_GEN)if test -f config.status; then \
2170 +# We avoid depending on 'configure' here, because it gets rebuilt
2171 +# every time GIT-VERSION-FILE is modified, only to update the embedded
2172 +# version number string, which config.status does not care about. We
2173 +# do want to recheck when the platform/environment detection logic
2174 +# changes, hence this depends on configure.ac.
2175 +config.status: configure.ac
2176 + $(QUIET_GEN)$(MAKE) configure && \
2177 + if test -f config.status; then \
2178 ./config.status --recheck; \
2179 else \
2180 ./configure; \