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

On 09.03.2015 16:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> 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.

Completely agreed.

>> 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 ...

Done.

Michael

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