Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

Hi,

On 2022-10-13 23:35:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com> writes:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 12:40 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >> It'd be a fair amount of work, both initially and to maintain it, to generate
> >> something compatible. I can see some benefit in showing some feature
> >> influencing output in --configure, but compatible output doesn't seem worth it
> >> to me.
> 
> > And it's ok for me that the output is not exactly the same as before.
> 
> Yeah, the output doesn't have to be exactly the same.

Seems like we should have a different pg_config flag for meson options than
for configure, and perhaps separately an option to show the buildsystem?

Maybe --buildsystem -> autoconf|meson, --configure -> existing CONFIGURE_ARGS
for autoconf, empty otherwise, --meson-options -> meson options?

Greetings,

Andres Freund