5f47cb8c328b76c41a9a21599477bfacf4d91a37
braney
  Sun Sep 6 16:57:16 2026 -0700
makefiles: let the compiler write the header dependencies

The tree had 72 hand-written "foo.o: bar.h" lines across 15 makefiles, so
almost every object was rebuilt only when its own .c file changed.  Editing a
header left every other object that included it holding the old layout, and the
crash landed somewhere the change never touched.

The %.o: %.c rule in inc/common.mk now passes -MMD -MP.  The compiler writes
foo.d beside foo.o listing the headers that compile really read, and an
-include reads them back.  Nine makefiles keep a compile rule of their own,
because they add -DGBROWSE, -DGFSERVER_HUGE or -DCGI_BIN=; each got ${DEPGEN}
too.  lib and hg/lib are the only two that build objects into a subdirectory,
and each reads its own subdirectory .d files at the foot of its own file.

Touching hg/hgTracks/wigCommon.h used to rebuild 2 objects.  It now rebuilds
11, which is every .c file in that directory that includes the header.

A .d file holds rules, and make takes its default goal from the first rule it
reads, included files and all.  common.mk is read before a makefile's own
rules, so the include has to save $(.DEFAULT_GOAL) and set it back afterwards;
without that, make in lib built adjacency.o and stopped.

Fifteen link rules in directories the build enters named a library on the
command line without depending on it.  Each now lists it.  hg/hgPhyloPlace,
hg/visiGene/hgVisiGene and hg/orthoMap were the three whose target is a real
file and could go stale.

make clean still leaves the .d files.  A shared clean:: rule in common.mk would
first mean converting about 320 single-colon clean: rules, since make refuses
to mix the two forms on one target.  A leftover .d cannot break a build: -MP
writes an empty target for each header, so a deleted or renamed one does not
leave make asking for a file no rule can build.

refs #36621

diff --git src/jkOwnLib/makefile src/jkOwnLib/makefile
index 28c302796f8..39510fe1a02 100644
--- src/jkOwnLib/makefile
+++ src/jkOwnLib/makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 kentSrc = ..
 include ../inc/common.mk
 
 O = bandExt.o crudeali.o ffAliHelp.o ffSeedExtend.o fuzzyFind.o \
     genoFind.o gfBlatLib.o gfClientLib.o gfInternal.o gfOut.o gfPcrLib.o gfWebLib.o ooc.o \
     patSpace.o splix.o supStitch.o trans3.o xenbig.o xensmall.o 
 
 T = ../lib/$(MACHTYPE)/jkOwnLib.a
 
 # for Huge-bit gfServer index
 OHuge = $(addsuffix Huge.o, $(basename $O))
 THuge = ../lib/$(MACHTYPE)/jkOwnLibHuge.a
 
 %Huge.o: %.c
-	${CC} -DGFSERVER_HUGE ${COPT} ${CFLAGS} ${HG_DEFS} ${LOWELAB_DEFS} ${HG_WARN} ${HG_INC} ${XINC} -o $@ -c $<
+	${CC} -DGFSERVER_HUGE ${COPT} ${CFLAGS} ${HG_DEFS} ${LOWELAB_DEFS} ${HG_WARN} ${HG_INC} ${XINC} ${DEPGEN} -o $@ -c $<
 
 all: $(T) $(THuge)
 
 $(T): $(O) ../lib/$(MACHTYPE)
 	ar rcus $(T) $(O)
 
 $(THuge): $(OHuge) ../lib/$(MACHTYPE)
 	ar rcus $(THuge) $(OHuge)
 
 ../lib/$(MACHTYPE):
 	mkdir ../lib/$(MACHTYPE)
 
 clean:
 	rm -f ${O} ${OHuge} ${T} ${THuge}