Re: One test per line, one source per line, etc. etc. etc.

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha:

> Do we have consensus for someone to just cleanup all the makefiles
> to have one source per line, one test per line etc.?

I think there was some opposition to trailing \ in lists in Makefiles.
This:

routines += \
  read \
  write \

vs:

routines += \
  read \
  write

> The more reviews I do, the more this causes my to stumble and have
> to work through merge issues.
>
> If I want to get to 100 patches reviewed per day I think this is going
> to block me.

Avoid merge conflicts also needs a custom merger (easier if the data is
in separate files with a more regular file).

Sorting the lists lexicographically avoids conflicts only
stochastically, for sufficiently long lists.

Thanks,
Florian