On Feb 6, 2008 11:12 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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