Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:42:27 -0400
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On 10/12/21 2:23 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2021-10-12 14:11:39 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 10/12/21 12:59 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> If you repro the hanging, what's the last bit in meson-logs/meson-log.txt?
>> Here's the entire thing
>> Sanity check compiler command line: ccache cc sanitycheckc.c -o
>> sanitycheckc.exe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
>> Sanity check compile stdout:
>>
>> -----
>> Sanity check compile stderr:
>>
>> -----
>>
>> meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Compiler ccache cc can not compile programs.
> Huh, it's not a question of gcc vs cc, it's that meson automatically uses
> ccache. And it looks like msys's ccache is broken at the moment (installed
> yesterday):
>
> $ ccache --version
> ccache version 4.4.1
> ...
>
> $ echo > test.c
> $ ccache cc -c test.c
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> ..
>
> not sure how that leads to hanging, but it's not too surprising that things
> don't work out after that...
>

Yes, I've had to disable ccache on fairywren.


cheers


andrew

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