Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 04:24:02PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Here are patches for these two issues.  More testing would be appreciated.
>
> --- a/contrib/basebackup_to_shell/meson.build
> +++ b/contrib/basebackup_to_shell/meson.build
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ tests += {
>      'tests': [
>        't/001_basic.pl',
>      ],
> -    'env': {'GZIP_PROGRAM': gzip.path(),
> -            'TAR': tar.path()},
> +    'env': {'GZIP_PROGRAM': gzip.found() ? gzip.path() : '',
> +            'TAR': tar.found() ? tar.path() : '' },
>    },

Hmm.  Interesting.  So this basically comes down to the fact that GZIP
and TAR are required in ./configure because distcheck has a hard
dependency on both, but we don't support this target in meson.  Is
that right?
--
Michael