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[PATCH 2/5] .gitignore: ignore external debug symbols from GCC on macOS

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 20, 2018, 16:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20181220162452.17732-3-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20181220162452.17732-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

When Git is build with a "real" GCC on macOS [1], or at least with GCC installed via Homebrew, and CFLAGS includes the '-g' option (and our default CFLAGS does), then by default GCC writes the debug symbols into external files under '<binary>.dSYM/' directories (e.g. 'git-daemon.dSYM/', 'git.dSYM/', etc.).

Update '.gitignore' to ignore these directories, so they don't clutter the output of 'git status'. Furthermore, these build artifacts then won't trigger build failures on Travis CI via b92cb86ea1 (travis-ci: check that all build artifacts are .gitignore-d, 2017-12-31) once one of the following patches updates our CI build scripts to use a real GCC in the 'osx-gcc' build job.

[1] On macOS the default '/usr/bin/gcc' executable is not a real GCC,
    but merely a compatibility wrapper around Clang:
      $ gcc --version
      Configured with: --prefix=<...>
      Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)
      <...>
    So even though 'make CC=gcc' does indeed execute a command called
    'gcc', in the end Git will be built with Clang all the same.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---
 .gitignore | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0d77ea5894..a9db568712 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -229,3 +229,4 @@
 *.pdb
 /Debug/
 /Release/
+*.dSYM
-- 
2.20.1.151.gec613c4b75
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  1. SZEDER GáborOct 16, 2018
  2. Jonathan NiederOct 16, 2018
  3. SZEDER GáborOct 16, 2018
  4. Jonathan NiederOct 16, 2018
  5. SZEDER GáborOct 17, 2018
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 18, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 18, 2018
  8. 0/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  9. 1/5 compat/obstack: fix -Wcast-function-type warningsSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 20, 2018
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2019
  12. SZEDER GáborJan 11, 2019
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2019
  14. SZEDER GáborJan 11, 2019
  15. SZEDER GáborJan 15, 2019
  16. Jonathan NiederJan 16, 2019
  17. SZEDER GáborJan 17, 2019
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2019
  19. 2/5 .gitignore: ignore external debug symbols from GCC on macOSSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  20. 3/5 travis-ci: don't be '--quiet' when running the testsSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  21. 5/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  22. Johannes SchindelinJan 3, 2019
  23. 4/5 travis-ci: switch to Xcode 10.1 macOS imageSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  24. 0/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  25. 1/5 compat/obstack: fix -Wcast-function-type warningsSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  26. 2/5 .gitignore: ignore external debug symbols from GCC on macOSSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  27. 3/5 travis-ci: don't be '--quiet' when running the testsSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  28. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2019
  29. 4/5 travis-ci: switch to Xcode 10.1 macOS imageSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  30. 5/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  31. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2019
  32. SZEDER GáborJan 17, 2019
  33. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2019

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