Hi, On 2023-02-22 09:42:54 -0800, Jacob Champion wrote: > I'm happy to contribute cycles to a Meson port when you're ready for > it. From a skim it seems like maybe in-source generation isn't a focus for > Meson [1]. They might encourage us to write custom Python for it anyway?
You'd normally just invoke commands for updating sources as run_target()s, not custom targets. Or generate them in the build tree via custom_target() and then copy to the source tree via a run_target(). For this case I think it'd suffice to add a run target that does something like make -C ~/src/postgresql/src/test/ssl/ -f ~/src/postgresql/src/test/ssl/sslfiles.mk sslfiles OPENSSL=openssl obviously with the necessary things being replaced by the relevant variables. sslfiles.mk doesn't depend on the rest of the buildsystem, and is a rarely executed command, so I don't see a problem with using make to update the files. At least for a long while. Greetings, Andres Freund
