Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 01:28:09PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-09-22 13:05:33 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> * 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.
> 
> I assume this is 20.04 LTS? If so, we're missing it by one version of meson
> currently. There's unfortunately a few features that'd be a bit painful to not
> have.

Yes.  I imagine I'll upgrade to 22.04 LTS soon, which appears to provide a
new enough version of meson.

>> * 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.
> 
> I think that should be "fixed" in a later commit in the meson tree - any
> chance you could try that?

Yup, after cherry-picking 9bc60bc, this is fixed.

-- 
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com