git p4 doc: fix branch detection example

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 18023294d2fd698f53fcb436e6998ae3d17a3327..05d241bc1212eeff301a383a887ffa34605faced 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ all::
 #
 # Define NO_REGEX if you have no or inferior regex support in your C library.
 #
+# Define CYGWIN_V15_WIN32API if you are using Cygwin v1.7.x but are not
+# using the current w32api packages. The recommended approach, however,
+# is to update your installation if compilation errors occur.
+#
 # Define HAVE_DEV_TTY if your system can open /dev/tty to interact with the
 # user.
 #
@@ -2275,8 +2279,14 @@ configure: configure.ac GIT-VERSION-FILE
        $(RM) $<+
 
 ifdef AUTOCONFIGURED
-config.status: configure
-       $(QUIET_GEN)if test -f config.status; then \
+# We avoid depending on 'configure' here, because it gets rebuilt
+# every time GIT-VERSION-FILE is modified, only to update the embedded
+# version number string, which config.status does not care about.  We
+# do want to recheck when the platform/environment detection logic
+# changes, hence this depends on configure.ac.
+config.status: configure.ac
+       $(QUIET_GEN)$(MAKE) configure && \
+       if test -f config.status; then \
          ./config.status --recheck; \
        else \
          ./configure; \