Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Fix ecpg test building process to not generate *.dSYM junk on Macs.
>>
>> The trick is to not try to build executables directly from .c files,
>> but to always build the intermediate .o files. For obscure reasons,
>> Darwin's version of gcc will leave debug cruft behind in the first
>> case but not the second. Per complaint from Robert Haas.
> A Makefile comment would have been nice so this is not un-done in the
> future.
Putting a comment there wouldn't really help. If this is ever broken
again, the odds are just about 100% that the breakage will be somewhere
else. I tried to think of someplace in our documentation where makefile
writing conventions in general could be documented, but came up empty.
regards, tom lane
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