Re: automatically generating node support functions

Andres Freund  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