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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:21:54 +0200
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13
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On 2022-Sep-22, Tom Lane wrote:

> Ah, right, the joys of maintaining multiple build systems.  I wonder
> if there's any way to avoid that by scraping file lists from one
> group to the other.

Or maybe we could have a file common to both, say OBJS, which both
scrape in their own way.  That could be easier than one scraping the
other.

> We got a little spoiled perhaps by the MSVC scripts managing to do
> that in most cases.

Right ... and it was so annoying in the cases it couldn't.

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