Re: [PATCH 0/4] Makefile: micro-optimize light non-test builds

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 05:07:04PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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This small series speeds up builds where you just want to get to a
working "git" binary, but don't care about running git's own tests, or
about making/installing fallbacks for "git svn" et al (which we do
even with NO_PERL).

I have to wonder if you really care about non-builtins here. If not,
then doesn't "make git" do what you want?

I had the same thought, while wondering if all the ugliness in [4/4]
is really worth it.

The steps 2/4 and 3/4 did look like a useful feature, but I wonder
why we even need to introduce NO_TEST_TOOLS in the first place.
Wouldn't it be more natural to arrange them to be built by making
"test::" target depend on them?  IOW, why do we need to have "all::"
(our default) target depend on them?

And if we are not doing [4/4], I suspect [1/4], while it is not bad
as a clean-up, would become less attractive.

So...