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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: samay sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:05:33 -0700
Message-ID: <20220922200533.GA697326@nathanxps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220922150550.pscsjv4nwnslupeg@awork3.anarazel.de>
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I gave the meson build system a try, and it seems to work nicely.  It
didn't take long at all to adapt my workflow.

A few notes from my experience:

* I'm using an Ubuntu-based distribution, and the version of meson that apt
installed was not new enough for Postgres.  I ended up cloning meson [0]
and using the newest tag.  This is no big deal.

* The installed binaries were unable to locate libraries like libpq.  I
ended up setting the extra_lib_dirs option to the directory where these
libraries were installed to fix this.  This one is probably worth
investigating further.

* meson really doesn't like it when there are things leftover from
configure/make.  Whenever I switch from make to meson, I have to run 'make
maintainer-clean'.

Otherwise, all of my usual build options, ccache, etc. are working just
like before.  Nice work!

[0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson

-- 
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com





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