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Re: meson oddities

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-01-26T09:20:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 19.01.23 21:45, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2023-01-19 21:37:15 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 11.01.23 12:05, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> I think there is also an adjacent issue:  The subdir options may be
>>> absolute or relative.  So if you specify --prefix=/usr/local and
>>> --sysconfdir=/etc/postgresql, then
>>>
>>>       config_paths_data.set_quoted('SYSCONFDIR', dir_prefix / dir_sysconf)
>>>
>>> would produce something like /usr/local/etc/postgresql.
> 
> I don't think it would. The / operator understands absolute paths and doesn't
> add the "first component" if the second component is absolute.

Oh, that is interesting.  In that case, this is not the right patch.  We 
should proceed with my previous patch in [0] then.

[0]: 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a6a6de12-f705-2b33-2fd9-9743277deb08@enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. meson: Fix installation path computation