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/parasol/paraNode/makefile src/parasol/paraNode/makefile index 4e45d20a54f..0203fe461ce 100644 --- src/parasol/paraNode/makefile +++ src/parasol/paraNode/makefile @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ kentSrc = ../.. include ../../inc/common.mk O = paraNode.o -paraNode: $(O) +paraNode: $(O) ../lib/$(MACHTYPE)/paralib.a ../../lib/$(MACHTYPE)/jkweb.a ${MKDIR} ../bin ${CC} ${COPT} ${CFLAGS} -o ../bin/paraNode $O ../lib/$(MACHTYPE)/paralib.a ../../lib/$(MACHTYPE)/jkweb.a ${L} ${STRIP} ../bin/paraNode${EXE} clean:: rm -f ${O}