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

On 10/29/19 11:32 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> 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.

+1 for the former.

>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund
>
>