Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v10

Hi,

On 2022-07-18 11:33:09 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The following patches are ok to commit IMO:
> 
> a1c5542929 prereq: Deal with paths containing \ and spaces in basebackup_to_shell tests
> e37951875d meson: prereq: psql: Output dir and dependency generation for sql_help
> 18cc9fbd02 meson: prereq: ecpg: Add and use output directory argument for preproc/*.pl
> 58a32694e9 meson: prereq: Move snowball_create.sql creation into perl file
> 59b8bffdaf meson: prereq: Add output path arg in generate-lwlocknames.pl
> 2db97b00d5 meson: prereq: generate-errcodes.pl: Accept output file
> fb8f52f21d meson: prereq: unicode: Allow to specify output directory
> 8f1e4410d6 meson: prereq: Refactor dtrace postprocessing make rules
> 3d18a20b11 meson: prereq: Add --outdir option to gen_node_support.pl

I pushed these. Thanks for the reviews and patches!

The symbol export stuff has also been pushed (discussed in a separate thread).

It's nice to see the meson patchset length reduced by this much.

I pushed a rebased version of the remaining branches to git. I'll be on
vacation for a bit, I'm not sure I can get a new version with further cleanups
out before.


Given that we can't use src/tools/gen_versioning_script.pl for the make build,
due to not depending on perl for tarball builds, I'm inclined to rewrite it
python (which we depend on via meson anyway) and consider it a meson specific
wrapper?


Bilal, Peter previously commented on the pg_regress change for ecpg, perhaps
you can comment on that?

In https://postgr.es/m/0e81e45c-c9a5-e95b-2782-ab2dfec8bf57%40enterprisedb.com
On 2022-07-06 11:03:31 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> dff7b5a960 meson: prereq: regress: allow to specify director containing
> expected files.
> 
> This could use a bit more explanation, but it doesn't look
> controversial so far.

Greetings,

Andres Freund