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

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(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.

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

Greetings,

Andres Freund