Hi, On 2022-09-22 13:05:33 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote: > 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.
I assume this is 20.04 LTS? If so, we're missing it by one version of meson currently. There's unfortunately a few features that'd be a bit painful to not have. > * 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. I think that should be "fixed" in a later commit in the meson tree - any chance you could try that? https://github.com/anarazel/postgres/tree/meson > * 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'. Yes. I recommend building out-of-tree with autoconf as well. > Otherwise, all of my usual build options, ccache, etc. are working just > like before. Nice work! Cool! Thanks for testing, Andres Freund
