Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)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