3 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/meson.build b/src/backend/meson.build
index 2b0db214804..b831a541652 100644
--- a/src/backend/meson.build
+++ b/src/backend/meson.build
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ backend_mod_code = declare_dependency(
   compile_args: pg_mod_c_args,
   include_directories: postgres_inc,
   link_args: pg_mod_link_args,
-  sources: generated_headers + generated_backend_headers,
+  sources: generated_backend_headers_stamp,
   dependencies: backend_mod_deps,
 )
 
diff --git a/src/fe_utils/meson.build b/src/fe_utils/meson.build
index a18cbc939e4..5a9ddb73463 100644
--- a/src/fe_utils/meson.build
+++ b/src/fe_utils/meson.build
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ generated_sources += psqlscan
 fe_utils_sources += psqlscan
 
 fe_utils = static_library('libpgfeutils',
-  fe_utils_sources + generated_headers,
+  fe_utils_sources,
   c_pch: pch_postgres_fe_h,
   include_directories: [postgres_inc, libpq_inc],
   c_args: host_system == 'windows' ? ['-DFD_SETSIZE=1024'] : [],
diff --git a/src/include/meson.build b/src/include/meson.build
index 2e4b7aa529e..7cb3075da2a 100644
--- a/src/include/meson.build
+++ b/src/include/meson.build
@@ -177,3 +177,24 @@ install_subdir('catalog',
 
 # autoconf generates the file there, ensure we get a conflict
 generated_sources_ac += {'src/include': ['stamp-h']}
+
+
+# Instead of having targets depending directly on a list of all generated
+# headers, have them depend on a stamp files for all of them. Dependencies on
+# headers are implemented as order-only dependencies in meson (and then using
+# compiler generated dependencies during incremental rebuilds ). The benefit
+# of using a stamp file is that it makes ninja.build considerably smaller and
+# meson setup faster, as otherwise the list of headers is repeated for every C
+# file, bloating build.ninja by ~2x.
+generated_headers_stamp = custom_target('generated-headers-stamp.h',
+  output: 'generated-headers-stamp.h',
+  input: generated_headers,
+  command: stamp_cmd,
+)
+
+generated_backend_headers_stamp = custom_target('generated-backend-headers-stamp.h',
+  output: 'generated-backend-headers-stamp.h',
+  input: generated_backend_headers,
+  depends: generated_headers_stamp,
+  command: stamp_cmd,
+)