Re: Building with meson on NixOS/nixpkgs

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

To: walther@technowledgy.de, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-04-17T11:49:53Z

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Support falling back to non-preferred readline implementation with meson
- 1091f8e0a48b 16.4 landed
- ed9d04463200 17.0 landed
- 67427f10093a 18.0 landed
Support absolute bindir/libdir in regression tests with meson
- 7f61882b638a 16.4 landed
- eb6765d57cfa 17.0 landed
- ff34ae368bdb 18.0 landed
Fallback to clang in PATH with meson
- 23be5206327c 16.4 landed
- a32ffeebfa63 17.0 landed
- 4d8de281b583 18.0 landed
Fallback to uuid for ossp-uuid with meson
- cc90d7823a6e 16.4 landed
- 469b97c52413 17.0 landed
- a00fae9d43e5 18.0 landed
meson: Add support for detecting ossp-uuid without pkg-config
- 2416fdb3ee30 18.0 cited

On 29.03.24 19:47, walther@technowledgy.de wrote:
 > -    uuid = dependency('ossp-uuid', required: true)
 > +    # upstream is called "uuid", but many distros change this to 
"ossp-uuid"
 > +    uuid = dependency('ossp-uuid', 'uuid', required: true)

How would this behave if you have only uuid.pc from e2fsprogs installed 
but choose -Duuid=ossp?  Then it would pick up uuid.pc here, but fail to 
compile later?