Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

I gave the meson build system a try, and it seems to work nicely.  It
didn't take long at all to adapt my workflow.

A few notes from my experience:

* 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.

* 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.

* meson really doesn't like it when there are things leftover from
configure/make.  Whenever I switch from make to meson, I have to run 'make
maintainer-clean'.

Otherwise, all of my usual build options, ccache, etc. are working just
like before.  Nice work!

[0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson

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