Re: automatically generating node support functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: automatically generating node support functions
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYrd0zSJp3h-UVvGuvQwvvETs_C2E_-8-w3au0kDmtU_w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: automatically generating node support functions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 3:54 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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
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