| From: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Paul van den Bogaard" <Paul(dot)Vandenbogaard(at)sun(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: build environment: a different makefile |
| Date: | 2008-02-07 08:09:24 |
| Message-ID: | 937d27e10802070009i4c2c7472l5d498b60d06bc363@mail.gmail.com |
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On Feb 6, 2008 11:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I've sometimes wondered whether the SUBSYS.o files really offer any
> advantage compared to just linking all the individual .o files. They
> certainly eat disk space, but perhaps they save some time ... or perhaps
> not, especially in a one-off build.
Getting rid of them would certainly make building OSX universal binaries easier.
> I suppose that we might fall foul of command line length limits on
> some platforms :-(. The output of your find command amounts to nearly
> 11000 characters in HEAD.
What do other large build systems do?
/D
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