Issue #16320: Remove redundant Makefile dependencies for strings and bytes.

Makefile.pre.in

@@ -689,28 +689,30 @@ Objects/unicodectype.o:	$(srcdir)/Objects/unicodectype.c \
 				$(srcdir)/Objects/unicodetype_db.h
 
 BYTESTR_DEPS = \
-		$(srcdir)/Include/bytes_methods.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/count.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/ctype.h \
-		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/eq.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/find.h \
-		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/find_max_char.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/join.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/partition.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/split.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/stringdefs.h \
-		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/transmogrify.h \
-		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/unicodedefs.h \
-		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/localeutil.h \
-		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/undef.h
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/transmogrify.h
 
-UNICODE_DEPS = $(BYTESTR_DEPS) \
+UNICODE_DEPS = \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/codecs.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/count.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/find.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/find_max_char.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/localeutil.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/partition.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/split.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/ucs1lib.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/ucs2lib.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/ucs4lib.h \
+		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/undef.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/unicode_format.h \
 		$(srcdir)/Objects/stringlib/unicodedefs.h
 
@@ -728,9 +730,6 @@ $(OPCODETARGETS_H): $(OPCODETARGETGEN_FILES)
 
 Python/ceval.o: $(OPCODETARGETS_H) $(srcdir)/Python/ceval_gil.h
 
-Python/formatter_unicode.o: $(srcdir)/Python/formatter_unicode.c \
-				$(BYTESTR_DEPS)
-
 Python/frozen.o: Python/importlib.h
 
 Objects/typeobject.o: Objects/typeslots.inc

Misc/NEWS

@@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ Tests
 Build
 -----
 
+- Issue #16320: Remove redundant Makefile dependencies for strings and bytes.
+
 - Cross compiling needs host and build settings. configure no longer
   creates a broken PYTHON_FOR_BUILD variable when --build is missing.