Re: Object files generated by ecpg test suite not ignored on Windows

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 03/09/2015 11:31 AM, Michael Meskes wrote:
>> I don't have a Windows system to test on, but how come these files were
>> only created in the ecpg testsuite? With the global .gitignore not
>> mentioning *.obj it appears those files are not created anywhere else.
>> Is the build process different for the rest of the tree?

> The MSVC build creates project directories which contain all the .obj
> files etc. The file locations for intermediate artefacts are quite
> different from the way a Unix build works. There is an ignore rule for
> these directories, which covers the .obj files there. But ecpg files are
> generated like in Unix builds.

Ah. That's lots more plausible than "no one's ever done any development
on Windows". I can believe that not so many people have run the ecpg
tests there.

> Since we have a global ignore rule for .o
> files it makes plenty of sense to have one for .obj files also.
> Certainly better than have one rule for each ecpg test case.

Agreed. So we should revert the previous patch ...

regards, tom lane