build: Only regenerate src/git-version.h when .git/logs/HEAD changes

We rely on .git/logs/HEAD to be a file that changes when we commit to HEAD.
The first idea is to make the makefile rule depend on .git/HEAD, but that's
a symbolic ref that points to the current ref in refs/heads.  However,
.git/logs/HEAD changes whenever we commit to HEAD, so we can use that in the
makefile rule.

Makefile.am

@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ weston_SOURCES =					\
 	shared/zalloc.h					\
 	src/weston-egl-ext.h
 
+# Track this dependency explicitly instead of using BUILT_SOURCES.  We
+# add BUILT_SOURCES to CLEANFILES, but we want to keep git-version.h
+# in case we're building from tarballs.
+
+src/compositor.c : $(top_builddir)/src/git-version.h
+
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES +=				\
 	libsession-helper.la
 
@@ -99,10 +105,10 @@ libsession_helper_la_LIBADD += $(SYSTEMD_LOGIN_LIBS) $(DBUS_LIBS)
 endif
 endif
 
-src/git-version.h : .FORCE
+if HAVE_GIT_REPO
-	$(AM_V_GEN)(echo "#define BUILD_ID \"$(shell git --git-dir=$(top_srcdir)/.git describe --always --dirty) $(shell git --git-dir=$(top_srcdir)/.git log -1 --format='%s (%ci)')\"" > $@-new; \
+src/git-version.h : $(top_srcdir)/.git/logs/HEAD
-	cmp -s $@ $@-new || cp $@-new $@; \
+	$(AM_V_GEN)echo "#define BUILD_ID \"$(shell git --git-dir=$(top_srcdir)/.git describe --always --dirty) $(shell git --git-dir=$(top_srcdir)/.git log -1 --format='%s (%ci)')\"" > $@
-	rm $@-new)
+endif
 
 .FORCE :
 
@@ -339,8 +345,7 @@ BUILT_SOURCES +=					\
 	src/workspaces-server-protocol.h		\
 	src/workspaces-protocol.c			\
 	src/scaler-server-protocol.h			\
-	src/scaler-protocol.c				\
+	src/scaler-protocol.c
-	src/git-version.h
 
 if BUILD_CLIENTS
 

configure.ac

@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ AC_SUBST([dtddir])
 AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_XMLLINT], [test "x$XMLLINT" != "x" -a "x$dtddir" != "x"])
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/version.h src/weston.pc])
+
+AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_GIT_REPO], [test -f $srcdir/.git/logs/HEAD])
+
 AC_OUTPUT
 
 AC_MSG_RESULT([