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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: automatically generating node support functions
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:38:05 -0400
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Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2022-07-11 15:54:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We can't simply move the file list into gen_node_support.pl, because
>> (a) the build system has to know about the dependencies involved

> Meson has builtin support for tools like gen_node_support.pl reporting which
> files they've read and then to use those as dependencies. It'd not be a lot of
> effort to open-code that with make either.

If you want to provide code for that, sure, but I don't know how to do it.

>> (b) gen_node_support.pl wouldn't know what to do in VPATH situations.

> We could easily add a --include-path argument or such. That'd be trivial to
> set for all of the build solutions.

True.

			regards, tom lane

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