Now make goal combinations starting with *clean goals, ending with *clean coals, and having non-*clean goals in between should work. What does not work is non-clean -- clean -- non-clean goal combination. Also, initial *clean goals do not request re-creation of Makefile.config if it exists and ./configure is newer. --- If someone did not lost count, those can notice that I did not send patch #4. it was quick fix for #3 -- but both had problem (which I could not test) that phony/targets that do not stamp itself to the filesystem would be run multiple time in #3. Now, this is even simpler, more robust and everything -- just that some more testing is needed (if not for anything else, for verifying that my claims in the commit message are accurate). and now I also got the difference between goals and targets. goals are those which user give from command line (or default, if none) -- targets are those defined in the makefiles, which defines how to reach these goals. Makefile | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 0ef57fa..ffab290 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -22,7 +22,30 @@ include Makefile.config global_deps = Makefile Makefile.config Makefile.local \ $(subdirs:%=%/Makefile) $(subdirs:%=%/Makefile.local) +INCLUDE_MORE := yes +ifneq ($(filter clean distclean dataclean, $(word 1, $(MAKECMDGOALS))),) +CLEAN_GOAL := $(word 1, $(MAKECMDGOALS)) + +ifneq ($(word 2, $(MAKECMDGOALS)),) +INCLUDE_MORE := no +$(CLEAN_GOAL): make_in_parts +.PHONY: make_in_parts +make_in_parts: + $(MAKE) $(CLEAN_GOAL) + $(MAKE) $(wordlist 2, 99, $(MAKECMDGOALS)) configure_options=$(configure_options) +endif + +else +CLEAN_GOAL := +endif + +# Potentially speedup make clean, distclean and dataclean ; avoid +# re-creation of Makefile.config if it exists but configure is newer. +ifneq ($(CLEAN_GOAL),) +Makefile.config: | $(srcdir)/configure +else Makefile.config: $(srcdir)/configure +endif ifeq ($(configure_options),) @echo "" @echo "Note: Calling ./configure with no command-line arguments. This is often fine," @@ -33,9 +56,11 @@ ifeq ($(configure_options),) endif $(srcdir)/configure $(configure_options) +ifeq ($(INCLUDE_MORE),yes) # runtime variable definitions available in all subdirs include $(srcdir)/Makefile.global # Finally, include all of the Makefile.local fragments where all the # real work is done. include $(subdirs:%=%/Makefile.local) Makefile.local +endif -- 2.9.3