Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

Hi,

On 2022-09-19 05:25:59 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> IMO, the following commits are ready to be pushed now:

Slowly working through them.


To have some initial "translation" for other developers I've started a wiki
page with a translation table. Still very WIP:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson

For now, a bit of polishing aside, I'm just planning to add a minimal
explanation of what's happening, and a reference to this thread.


> b7d7fe009731 Remove DLLTOOL, DLLWRAP from configure / Makefile.global.in
> 979f26889544 Don't hardcode tmp_check/ as test directory for tap tests
> 9fc657fbb7e2 Split TESTDIR into TESTLOGDIR and TESTDATADIR
> 6de8f1de0ffa meson: prereq: Extend gendef.pl in preparation for meson
> 5a9731dcc2e6 meson: prereq: port: Include c.h instead of postgres.h in *p{read,write}*.c

Done


> 7054861f0fef meson: prereq: Add src/tools/gen_export.pl

This one I'm planning to merge with the "main" commit, given there's no other user.

Greetings,

Andres Freund