Use diffprereqs files as dependencies, not FORCE

[Shushe] / GNUmakefile

diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 105b403510b9fe98fc60b935af5ab4d48d2aec97..c654ddbfcc160d9423a1858440c7bcb6cbb72b6c 100644 (file)
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -348,16 +348,16 @@ ifeq ($(MODE),urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4:mode:default)
 # Non·empty if `help´ or `clean´, and no targets other than `help´ or `clean´, were specified as goals on the commandline.
 override notbuilding := $(and $(filter help clean,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),$(call not,$(filter-out help clean,$(MAKECMDGOALS))))
 
-# (callable) Test to see if the prerequisites provided by the second argument matches the value in the file corresponding to the first argument in `$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs´.
-# If not, save the new value and then add FORCE.
-# Return them regardless.
+# (callable) Tests to see if the prerequisites provided by the second argument matches the value in the file corresponding to the first argument in `$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs´.
+# If not, saves the new value.
+# Returns the values plus the file in `$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs´, which will always be newer than the target if there was a change.
 #
 # Calling this variable is useful when a given target should be updated whenever its list of prerequisites changes in addition to whenever there is a change to one of its prerequisites.
 #
 # If `$(notbuilding)´ is non·empty, this variable produces no result to avoid unnecessary work.
 #
 # ☡ This variable creates at least one subshell every time it is computed.
-override diffprereqs = $(if $(notbuilding),,$(if $(subst $(shell $(CAT) $(call quote,$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs/$1) 2>>/dev/null || :),,$2),$2 FORCE$(and $(shell $(call ensuredirectory,$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs) && $(PRINTF) '%s\n' $(call quote,$2) >|$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs/$1),),$2))
+override diffprereqs = $(if $(notbuilding),,$(and $(subst $(shell $(CAT) $(call quote,$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs/$1) 2>>/dev/null || :),,$2),$(shell $(call ensuredirectory,$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs) && $(PRINTF) '%s\n' $(call quote,$2) >|$(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs/$1),)$2 $(BUILDDIR)/lastprereqs/$1)
 
 # (callable) Escape special characters for use in X·M·L.
 override xmlesc = $(subst >,&gt;,$(subst <,&lt;,$(subst &,&amp;,$1)))
@@ -752,10 +752,13 @@ $(BUILDDIR)/extractor.xslt : $(SRC) $(THISDIR)/lib/archive2extractor.xslt
 # Use the extractor transform to extract the archive source file out into its components.
 #
 # This target sleeps for 1 second to ensure the resulting index will always be newer than this make·file.
+#
+# If the archive is empty, the index will not be written by `xsltproc´ and will need to be manually created.
 $(BUILDDIR)/index : $(BUILDDIR)/extractor.xslt $(SRC)
        $(call inform,$(PRINTF) '%s\n' $(call quote,Extracting components for </$(NAME)>…) >&2)
        $(silent)$(SLEEP) 1
        $(silent)$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --novalid -o $(call quote,$@) --writesubtree $(call quote,$(dir $@)) $(call quote,$<) $(call quote,$(SRC))
+       $(silent)if $(TEST) ! -e $(call quote,$@); then $(TOUCH) $(call quote,$@); fi
 
 # All archive components are extracted alongside the index.
 $(foreach file,$(archivefiles),$(BUILDDIR)/extracted/$(file)) : $(BUILDDIR)/index ;
@@ -774,7 +777,8 @@ $(DESTDIR)/% : $(SRC) $(foreach file,$(archivefiles),$(BUILDDIR)/files/$(file))
        $(call inform,$(PRINTF) '%s\n' $(call quote,Archiving </$(NAME)>…) >&2)
        $(silent)$(call ensuredirectory,$(dir $@))
        $(silent)$(RM) -f -R $(call quote,$@)
-       $(silent)$(CD) $(call quote,$(BUILDDIR)/files); if $(call xpath,/*/@*[local-name()="expanded" and namespace-uri()="urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4"],$(abspath $<)); then $(MKDIR) -p $(call quote,$(abspath $@)); $(PRINTF) '%s\n' $(foreach file,$(archivefiles),$(call quote,$(file))) | $(PAX) -r -w $(call quote,$(abspath $@)); else $(PRINTF) '%s\n' $(foreach file,$(archivefiles),$(call quote,$(file))) | $(PAX) -w -x ustar >|$(call quote,$(abspath $@)); fi
+       $(silent)$(call ensuredirectory,$(BUILDDIR)/files)
+       $(silent)$(CD) $(call quote,$(BUILDDIR)/files); if $(call xpath,/*/@*[local-name()="expanded" and namespace-uri()="urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4"],$(abspath $<)); then $(MKDIR) -p $(call quote,$(abspath $@)); $(PRINTF) '$(if $(archivefiles),%s\n,)' $(foreach file,$(archivefiles),$(call quote,$(file))) | $(PAX) -r -w $(call quote,$(abspath $@)); else $(PRINTF) '$(if $(archivefiles),%s\n,)' $(foreach file,$(archivefiles),$(call quote,$(file))) | $(PAX) -w -x ustar >|$(call quote,$(abspath $@)); fi
 
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