| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, 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 20:17:28 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoYrd0zSJp3h-UVvGuvQwvvETs_C2E_-8-w3au0kDmtU_w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 3:54 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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, and
> (b) gen_node_support.pl wouldn't know what to do in VPATH situations.
> However, we could have gen_node_support.pl contain a canonical list
> of the files it expects to be handed, and make it bitch if its
> arguments don't match that.
Sorry if I'm being dense, but why do we have to duplicate the list of
files instead of having gen_node_support.pl just sort whatever list
the build system provides to it?
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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