Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:37:29 -0700
From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>,
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	samay sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>,
	Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 01:28:09PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-09-22 13:05:33 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> * 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.
> 
> I assume this is 20.04 LTS? If so, we're missing it by one version of meson
> currently. There's unfortunately a few features that'd be a bit painful to not
> have.

Yes.  I imagine I'll upgrade to 22.04 LTS soon, which appears to provide a
new enough version of meson.

>> * 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.
> 
> I think that should be "fixed" in a later commit in the meson tree - any
> chance you could try that?

Yup, after cherry-picking 9bc60bc, this is fixed.

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