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@anarazel.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
> 
>