I gave the meson build system a try, and it seems to work nicely. It didn't take long at all to adapt my workflow.
A few notes from my experience: * 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. * 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. * meson really doesn't like it when there are things leftover from configure/make. Whenever I switch from make to meson, I have to run 'make maintainer-clean'. Otherwise, all of my usual build options, ccache, etc. are working just like before. Nice work! [0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
