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

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: RFC: split OBJS lines to one object per line
Date
Msg-id 20191105224755.egcef7gx7jota4bz@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: RFC: split OBJS lines to one object per line  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: RFC: split OBJS lines to one object per line
List pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019-10-29 23:32:09 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> 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.

Pushed a patch going with the former. Let's see what the buildfarm
says...

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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