From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Fix ecpg test building process to not generate *.dSYM junk on Ma |
Date: | 2010-10-22 02:19:07 |
Message-ID: | 11665.1287713947@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Fix ecpg test building process to not generate *.dSYM junk on Macs.
>>
>> The trick is to not try to build executables directly from .c files,
>> but to always build the intermediate .o files. For obscure reasons,
>> Darwin's version of gcc will leave debug cruft behind in the first
>> case but not the second. Per complaint from Robert Haas.
> A Makefile comment would have been nice so this is not un-done in the
> future.
Putting a comment there wouldn't really help. If this is ever broken
again, the odds are just about 100% that the breakage will be somewhere
else. I tried to think of someplace in our documentation where makefile
writing conventions in general could be documented, but came up empty.
regards, tom lane
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