Re: RFC: split OBJS lines to one object per line - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2019-10-29 16:31:11 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > one of the most frequent conflicts I see is that two patches add files
> > to OBJS (or one of its other spellings), and there are conflicts because
> > another file has been added.
> > ...
> > Now, obviously these types of conflicts are easy enough to resolve, but
> > it's still annoying.  It seems that this would be substantially less
> > often a problem if we just split such lines to one file per
> > line.
> 
> We did something similar not too long ago in configure.in (bfa6c5a0c),
> and it seems to have helped.  +1

Cool. Any opinion on whether to got for

OBJS = \
    dest.o \
    fastpath.o \
...

or

OBJS = dest.o \
    fastpath.o \
...

I'm mildly inclined to go for the former.

Greetings,

Andres Freund