Re: meson uses stale pg_config_paths.h left over from make

On 23.08.23 14:52, David Rowley wrote:
> Generally when there are files left over the meson build script will
> detect this and ask you to run make maintainer-clean.  That's useful
> on Linux, but on Windows you're just left to manually remove the
> conflicting files which are listed.  Unfortunately, pg_config_paths.h
> wasn't listed, which I think was missed because it's not generated
> during configure, but during the actual make build. (see
> src/port/Makefile)

How is this different from any other built file being left in the tree? 
Surely meson should not be required to detect that?