Makefile: conditionally include GIT-VERSION-FILE

The 'clean' target is noticeably slow on cygwin, even for a 'do-nothing'
invocation of 'make clean'. For example, the second 'make clean' given
below:

  $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1
  $ make clean
  GITGUI_VERSION = 0.21.0.85.g3e5c
  rm -rf git-gui lib/tclIndex po/*.msg
  rm -rf GIT-VERSION-FILE GIT-GUI-VARS
  $

has been timed at 1.934s on my laptop (an old core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz,
8GB RAM, 1TB HDD).

Notice that the Makefile, as part of processing the 'clean' target, is
updating the 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' file.  This is to ensure that the
$(GITGUI_VERSION) make variable is set, once that file had been included.
However, the 'clean' target does not use the $(GITGUI_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 0.676s, on my laptop,
giving an improvement of 65.05%).

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f10caedaa7a3970628148258ed8dc9f6a5e8c827..56c85a85c1e4930ae1cef3b51be4b4e5bf283773 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ all::
 
 GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE
        @$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
+ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),clean)
 -include GIT-VERSION-FILE
+endif
 
 uname_S := $(shell sh -c 'uname -s 2>/dev/null || echo not')
 uname_O := $(shell sh -c 'uname -o 2>/dev/null || echo not')