Re: Clean up MinGW def file generation

On 2019-10-18 15:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, the comment that Peter complained about is mine.  I believe the
> desire to avoid depending on "sed" at build time was focused on our
> old support for building libpq with Borland C (and not much else).
> Since this makefile infrastructure is now only used for MinGW, I agree
> we ought to be able to quit shipping those files in tarballs.

Yeah, it all makes sense now.  I have committed my patch now.

> I think there could be some .gitignore cleanup done along with this.
> Notably, I see exclusions for /exports.list in several places, but no
> other references to that name --- isn't that an intermediate file that
> we used to generate while creating these files?

exports.list is built from exports.txt on non-Windows platforms and
AFAICT it is not cleaned up as an intermediate file.  So I think the
current arrangement is correct.

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