tests/example/check: Better handling of makefile updates

[subdirmk.git] / regen.mk.in

diff --git a/regen.mk.in b/regen.mk.in
index c4002a623a650a5127eb40c0d29b4c3c8c7cf57a..11e8a32f8e725547f58d6c183839320f53f04d03 100644 (file)
--- a/regen.mk.in
+++ b/regen.mk.in
@@ -24,19 +24,24 @@ CONFIG_STATUS       ?= config.status
 CONFIGURE_ACS  += $(CONFIGURE_AC)
 CONFIGURE_ACS  += subdirmk/subdirmk.ac
 
+# To turn on debugging here, export SUBDIRMK_REGEN_NDEBUG=''
+SUBDIRMK_REGEN_NDEBUG ?= @
+
 $(top_srcdir)/$(CONFIGURE): $(addprefix $(top_srcdir)/,$(CONFIGURE_ACS))
        cd $(top_srcdir) && autoconf
 
 $(CONFIG_STATUS): $(top_srcdir)/$(CONFIGURE)
        ./$(CONFIG_STATUS) --recheck
 
-# Normally, generate will add all the inputs to MAKEFILE_TEMPLATES.
+# generate will add all its own inputs and outputs to these variables
+SUBDIRMK_MAKEFILES += @_SUBDIRMK_MAKEFILES@
 MAKEFILE_TEMPLATES += $(addprefix $(top_srcdir)/, $(addsuffix .in, \
        @_SUBDIRMK_MAKEFILES@ \
        ))
 
 main.mk $(SUBDIRMK_MAKEFILES) $(CONFIG_STATUS_OUTPUTS): .makefiles.stamp
-               @:
+       $(SUBDIRMK_REGEN_NDEBUG): REGEN STAMP CAUSES TARGET=$@
+
 .makefiles.stamp:                                              \
                $(top_srcdir)/subdirmk/generate                 \
                $(CONFIG_STATUS)                                \
@@ -44,11 +49,12 @@ main.mk $(SUBDIRMK_MAKEFILES) $(CONFIG_STATUS_OUTPUTS): .makefiles.stamp
 # This filtering arranges that we can often run config.status to
 # generate only particular output files.  We look for *inputs* that
 # have changed.  If the only inputs that have changed are ones that we
-# know affect only one output (Subdir.mk.in and regen.mk.in), we pass
+# know affect only one output (Subdir.sd.mk and *.mk.in), we pass
 # config.status the corresponding output file names.  Otherwise we
 # pass nothing and config.status does them all.  We need to mention
-# regen.mk.in twice because if $(top_srcdir) is `.', make elides the
+# Subdir.sd.mk twice because if $(top_srcdir) is `.', make elides the
 # directory part from $?.
+       $(SUBDIRMK_REGEN_NDEBUG): REGEN STAMP WANTS DEPS=$?
        ./$(CONFIG_STATUS) $(if                                 \
                $(filter-out Subdir.sd.mk %/Subdir.sd.mk        \
                             %.mk.in                            \