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Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson -v8

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-05-16T15:47:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 12.05.22 21:30, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-05-11 12:18:58 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I fixed the Perl detection issue in my macOS environment that I had reported
>> a while ago.
> 
> Hm. I wonder if it's right to check with is_file() - perhaps there are
> platforms that have split off the include directory?

The existing code uses "test -f", so using is_file() would keep it 
working the same way.

>> After that, these configure options don't have an equivalent yet:
>>
>> --disable-rpath
>> --enable-profiling
>> --disable-thread-safety
>> --with-libedit-preferred
>>
>> The first three overlap with meson built-in functionality, so we would need
>> to check whether the desired functionality is available somehow.
> 
> Which builtin functionality does --enable-profiling overlap with? There's a
> coverage option, perhaps you were thinking of that?

I saw an option about "profile guided optimization" (b_pgo), which seems 
possibly related.

> I don't think we should add --disable-thread-safety, platforms without it also
> aren't going to support ninja / meson... IIRC Thomas was planning to submit a
> patch getting rid of it independently...

sure

>>  From 049b34b6a8dd949f0eb7987cad65f6682a6ec786 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
>> Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 09:06:13 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH 3/9] meson: prereq: Refactor dtrace postprocessing make rules
>>
>> Move the dtrace postprocessing sed commands into a separate file so
>> that it can be shared by meson.  Also split the rule into two for
>> proper dependency declaration.
> 
> Hm. Using sed may be problematic on windows...

This code is only used when dtrace is enabled, which probably doesn't 
apply on Windows.

Commits

  1. meson: Add 'running' test setup, as a replacement for installcheck

  2. meson: Add support for building with precompiled headers

  3. windows: Adjust FD_SETSIZE via commandline define

  4. meson: docs: Add xml{lint,proc} wrapper to collect dependencies

  5. meson: ecpg: Split definition of static and shared libraries

  6. windows: Set UMDF_USING_NTSTATUS globally, include ntstatus.h

  7. ci: Add hint about downloadable logs to README

  8. meson: Set up absolute rpaths to libdir

  9. meson: Include CFLAGS/c_args in summary and pg_config output

  10. windows: remove date from version number in win32ver.rc

  11. meson: Add initial version of meson based build system

  12. ci: windows: set error mode to not include SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX

  13. Refactor PG_TEST_EXTRA logic in autoconf build

  14. Split TESTDIR into TESTLOGDIR and TESTDATADIR

  15. Don't hardcode tmp_check/ as test directory for tap tests

  16. Extend gendef.pl in preparation for meson

  17. Include c.h instead of postgres.h in src/port/*p{read,write}*.c

  18. Remove DLLTOOL, DLLWRAP from configure / Makefile.global.in

  19. Run xmllint validation only once

  20. Bump minimum Perl version to 5.14

  21. Move gramparse.h to src/backend/parser

  22. Run perltidy over Catalog.pm

  23. Parse catalog .dat files as a whole when compiling the backend

  24. Build all Flex files standalone

  25. Move private declarations shared between guc.c and guc-file.l to new header

  26. Preparatory refactoring for compiling guc-file.c standalone

  27. Move darwin sysroot determination into separate file

  28. Fix MSVC warning in compat_informix/rnull.pgc

  29. solaris: Use versioning scripts instead of -Bsymbolic

  30. Change shared library installation naming on macOS

  31. regress: allow to specify directory containing expected files, for ecpg

  32. Don't add HAVE_LDAP_H HAVE_WINLDAP_H to pg_config.h

  33. Refactor dtrace postprocessing make rules

  34. Add output directory option to gen_node_support.pl

  35. Add output directory argument to generate-unicode_norm_table.pl

  36. Add output file argument to generate-errcodes.pl

  37. Add output path arg in generate-lwlocknames.pl

  38. Move snowball_create.sql creation into perl file

  39. ecpg: Output dir, source dir, stamp file argument for preproc/*.pl

  40. psql: Output dir and dependency generation for sql_help

  41. Deal with paths containing \ and spaces in basebackup_to_shell tests

  42. Remove LLVM_CONFIG from Makefile.global.in

  43. Make update-unicode target work in vpath builds

  44. Refactor DLSUFFIX handling

  45. ldap tests: Add paths for openbsd.

  46. ldap tests: Don't run on unsupported operating systems.

  47. Remove check for accept() argument types

  48. Move our p{read,write}v replacements into their own files.

  49. Adjust yywrap macro for non-reentrant scanners for MSVC.

  50. Remove any -arch switches given in ExtUtils::Embed's ldopts from our

  51. Change PL/Perl and Pg interface build to use configured compiler and

  52. Apparently, on some systems, ExtUtils::Embed and MakeMaker are slightly