Re: RFC: split OBJS lines to one object per line

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RFC: split OBJS lines to one object per line
Date: 2019-10-30 06:32:09
Message-ID: 20191030063209.mr2ksylefsrcbu6z@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-10-29 16:31:11 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)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

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