Makefile: make the "sparse" target non-.PHONY

Change the "sparse" target and its *.sp dependencies to be
non-.PHONY. Before this change "make sparse" would take ~5s to re-run
all the *.c files through "cgcc", after it it'll create an empty *.sp
file sitting alongside the *.c file, only if the *.c file or its
dependencies are newer than the *.sp is the *.sp re-made.

We ensure that the recursive dependencies are correct by depending on
the *.o file, which in turn will have correct dependencies by either
depending on all header files, or under
"COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES=yes" the headers it needs.

This means that a plain "make sparse" is much slower, as we'll now
need to make the *.o files just to create the *.sp files, but
incrementally creating the *.sp files is *much* faster and less
verbose, it thus becomes viable to run "sparse" along with "all" as
e.g. "git rebase --exec 'make all sparse'".

On my box with -j8 "make sparse" was fast before, or around 5 seconds,
now it only takes that long the first time, and the common case is
<100ms, or however long it takes GNU make to stat the *.sp file and
see that all the corresponding *.c file and its dependencies are
older.

See 0bcd9ae (sparse: Fix errors due to missing target-specific
variables, 2011-04-21) for the modern implementation of the sparse
target being changed here.

It is critical that we use -Wsparse-error here, otherwise the error
would only show up once, but we'd successfully create the empty *.sp
file, and running a second time wouldn't show the error. I'm therefore
not putting it into SPARSE_FLAGS or SP_EXTRA_FLAGS, it's not optional,
the Makefile logic won't behave properly without it.

Appending to $@ without a move is OK here because we're using the
.DELETE_ON_ERROR Makefile feature. See 7b76d6b (Makefile: add and
use the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag, 2021-06-29). GNU make ensures that on
error this file will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: avar

.gitignore

@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@
 *.lib
 *.res
 *.sln
+*.sp
 *.suo
 *.ncb
 *.vcproj

Makefile

@@ -2903,11 +2903,13 @@ check-sha1:: t/helper/test-tool$X
 
 SP_OBJ = $(patsubst %.o,%.sp,$(C_OBJ))
 
-$(SP_OBJ): %.sp: %.c GIT-CFLAGS FORCE
+$(SP_OBJ): %.sp: %.c %.o GIT-CFLAGS
 	$(QUIET_SP)cgcc -no-compile $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CPPFLAGS) \
-		$(SPARSE_FLAGS) $(SP_EXTRA_FLAGS) $<
+		-Wsparse-error \
+		$(SPARSE_FLAGS) $(SP_EXTRA_FLAGS) $< && \
+	>$@
 
-.PHONY: sparse $(SP_OBJ)
+.PHONY: sparse
 sparse: $(SP_OBJ)
 
 EXCEPT_HDRS := command-list.h config-list.h unicode-width.h compat/% xdiff/%
@@ -3234,6 +3236,7 @@ clean: profile-clean coverage-clean cocciclean
 	$(RM) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPT_LIB) $(BUILT_INS) git$X
 	$(RM) $(TEST_PROGRAMS)
 	$(RM) $(FUZZ_PROGRAMS)
+	$(RM) $(SP_OBJ)
 	$(RM) $(HCC)
 	$(RM) -r bin-wrappers $(dep_dirs) $(compdb_dir) compile_commands.json
 	$(RM) -r po/build/