Re: automatically generating node support functions

Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have a question related to commit 964d01ae90. Today, after getting
> the latest code, when I compiled it on my windows machine, it lead to
> a compilation error because the outfuncs.funcs.c was not regenerated.
> I did the usual steps which I normally perform after getting the
> latest code (a) run "perl mkvcbuild.pl" and (b) then build the code
> using MSVC. Now, after that, I manually removed "node-support-stamp"
> from folder src/backend/nodes/ and re-did the steps and I see that the
> outfuncs.funcs.c got regenerated, and the build is also successful. I
> see that there is handling to clean the file "node-support-stamp" in
> nodes/Makefile but not sure how it works for windows. I think I am
> missing something here. Can you please guide me?

More likely, we need to add something explicit to Mkvcbuild.pm
for this. I recall that it has stanzas to deal with updating
other autogenerated files; I bet we either missed that or
fat-fingered it for node-support-stamp.

regards, tom lane