On 13.03.24 07:42, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 2024-03-13 We 02:31, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 2024-03-13 We 02:22, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On 13.03.24 07:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
I and several colleagues have just been trying to build from a
tarball with meson.
That seems pretty awful and unfriendly and I didn't see anything
about it in the docs.
At https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/install-requirements.html is says:
"""
Alternatively, PostgreSQL can be built using Meson. This is currently
experimental and only works when building from a Git checkout (not
from a distribution tarball).
"""
Ah!. Darn, I missed that. Thanks.
Of course, when release 17 comes out this had better not be the case,
since we have removed the custom Windows build system.
Yes, this has been changed in 17.
