Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

On Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 9:24 AM CST, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 18.12.23 14:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> 2) I had seen that if sed/gzip is not available meson build will fail:
> >> 2.a)
> >> Program gsed sed found: NO
> >> meson.build:334:6: ERROR: Program 'gsed sed' not found or not executable
> >
> > Yes, this would need to be improved.  Currently, sed is only required if
> > either selinux or dtrace is enabled, which isn't supported on Windows.
> > But we should adjust the build scripts to not fail the top-level setup
> > run unless those options are enabled.
> >
> >> 2.b)
> >> Program gzip found: NO
> >> meson.build:337:7: ERROR: Program 'gzip' not found or not executable
> >
> > gzip is only required for certain test suites, so again we should adjust
> > the build scripts to not fail the build but instead skip the tests as
> > appropriate.
>
> Here are patches for these two issues.  More testing would be appreciated.

Meson looks good to me!

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Tristan Partin
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