| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: automatically generating node support functions |
| Date: | 2022-07-11 20:38:05 |
| Message-ID: | 1239476.1657571885@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> 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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