On 2018-08-16 10:07:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2018-08-16 09:22:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> The lazy man's way to get rid of it would be to put something like > >> "int bogus = 0;" in the empty dynloader.c files. Better would be > >> to not have the empty .c files at all, but I'm not sure how much > >> we'd have to contort the Makefiles to support that. > > > If I had my druthers, we'd just remove all that configure magic for > > selecting these files and just use ifdefs. Personally I find it > > occasionally that they're linked into place, rather than built under > > their original name. > > Even if we all agreed that was an improvement (which I'm not sure of), > it wouldn't fix this problem would it? On affected platforms, the > file would still be empty after preprocessing.
Well, that depends on what you put into that file, it seems realistically combinable with a bunch of non-conditional code... Anyway, I'm not planning to do something here right now besides putting -Wno-empty-translation-unit into my scripts, I just wanted to make sure people are aware that we hit this now. Greetings, Andres Freund