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[subdirmk.git] / subdirmk / regen.mk.in

diff --git a/subdirmk/regen.mk.in b/subdirmk/regen.mk.in
index 2661ee18758ece403ce046528f5cc5e6fc0f8ddd..b8e031f7686c929cf5e1da072162a43bebe621e3 100644 (file)
--- a/subdirmk/regen.mk.in
+++ b/subdirmk/regen.mk.in
@@ -14,20 +14,29 @@ $(CONFIG_STATUS): $(top_srcdir)/$(CONFIGURE)
 
 MAKEFILES += subdirmk/regen.mk
 
-main.mk $(MAKEFILES): .config.status.needed
-       ./$<
-.INTERMEDIATE: .config.status.needed
-.config.status.needed:                                                 \
+MAKEFILE_TEMPLATES += $(top_srcdir)/Perdir.mk.in
+
+main.mk $(MAKEFILES): .makefiles.stamp ;
+.makefiles.stamp:                                              \
                $(top_srcdir)/subdirmk/generate                 \
                $(CONFIG_STATUS)                                \
-               $(top_srcdir)/Perdir.mk.in                      \
+               $(MAKEFILE_TEMPLATES)                           \
                $(foreach m,$(MAKEFILES),$(top_srcdir)/$(m).in)
-       : $?
-       set -e; printf >$@.tmp "#!/bin/sh\nset -e\n%s %s"       \
-               "./$(CONFIG_STATUS)"                            \
-               "$(if   $(filter-out %.mk.in, $?),,             \
-                       $(patsubst %.mk.in,%.mk,$?))"   ;       \
-               chmod +x $@.tmp; mv -f $@.tmp $@
+# 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
+# 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
+# directory part from $?.
+       ./$(CONFIG_STATUS) $(if                                 \
+               $(filter-out Subdir.mk.in %/Subdir.mk.in        \
+                       subdirmk/regen.mk.in                    \
+                       $(top_srcdir)/subdirmk/regen.mk.in      \
+                       , $?),,                                 \
+               $(sort $(patsubst %.mk.in,%.mk,$(filter %.mk.in,$?))))
+       touch $@
 
 realclean:: clean
        $(RM) config.status config.log