Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers