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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:55:50 -0500
Message-Id: <CU0CO7RUEX1D.2S9BUQWZITJ2@gonk>
Subject: Re: Meson build updates
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
From: "Tristan Partin" <tristan@neon.tech>
Cc: "Andres Freund" <andres@anarazel.de>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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On Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 11:39 AM CDT, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2023-Jul-12, Tristan Partin wrote:
>
> > Attached is a patch which does just that without overriding the
> > binaries. I investigated the bin_targets stuff, but some test
> > executables get added there, so it wouldn't work out that well.
>
> This seems useful.  Maybe we should have some documentation changes to
> go with it, because otherwise it seems a bit too obscure.

Do you have a place in mind on where to document it?

> Maybe there are other subdirs where this would be useful.  ecpg maybe?
> (Much less widely used, but if it's this simple, it shouldn't be much of
> a burden)

A previous version of this patch[0] did it to all public facing
binaries. Andres wasn't super interested in that.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CSPIJVUDZFKX.3KHMOAVGF94RV%40c3p=
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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)