On 2022-07-11 18:39:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > I'm not entirely sure how well either the existing or the sketch above works
> > when doing a VPATH build using tarball sources, and updating the files.
>
> Seems like an awful lot of effort to avoid having multiple copies
> of the file list. I think we should just do what I sketched earlier,
> ie put the master list into gen_node_support.pl and have it cross-check
> that against its command line. If the meson system can avoid having
> its own copy of the list, great; but I don't feel like we have to make
> that happen for the makefiles or Solution.pm.
WFM.