Re: [PATCH v1] [meson] add a default option prefix=/usr/local/pgsql

Hi,

On 2022-09-30 13:13:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2022-09-30 08:59:53 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> On 2022-09-30 11:45:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Can we have a platform-dependent default?
> 
> >> Not easily in that spot, I think.
> 
> > For background: The reason for that is that meson doesn't yet know what the
> > host/build environment is, because those can be influenced by
> > default_options. We can run programs though, so if we really want to set some
> > platform dependent default, we can.
> 
> Meh.  It's not like the existing MSVC script behavior is so sane
> that we should strive to retain it.

Agreed - I was just trying to give background. I'm inclined to just go for
Junwang Zhao's patch for now.

Greetings,

Andres Freund