Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > In some cases, the listed files are build output from another rule, for > example sql_help.c. By using a wildcard, you just take whatever files > happen to be there, not observing proper make dependencies.
Hmm. We could list built files explicitly, perhaps, and still be a good step ahead on the maintenance burden. Does xgettext get upset if the same input file is mentioned twice, ie would we have to filter sql_help.c out of the wildcard result? regards, tom lane