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Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, samay sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-09-15T02:26:26Z
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Hi,

Attached is v13 of the meson patchset. The biggest changes are:

- fix for the occasional ecpg.c crashes - which turned out to be crashes of
  python, which in turn likely are due to a bug in the windows CRT

- split out and improved the patch to add resource files on windows. This
  doesn't yet add them to all binaries, but I think the infrastructure looks
  better now, and there's no duplicated win32ver.rc anymore.

- several rebasing adjustments, most notably the parser stuff and the
  introduction of postgresql-full.xml

- improved structure of docs, based on Peter's review (Samay)

- generation of proper dependencies for xmllint/xsltproc, by parsing xsltproc
  --load-trace. Previously the meson build didn't rebuild docs properly (meson
  doesn't have "glob-style" dependencies). (Bilal)

- numerous small improvements and fixes

- added a patch to drop DLLTOOL/DLLWRAP from configure.ac / Makefile.global.in
  - we've removed the use of them in 2014. This way the pgxs emulation doesn't
  need to care.

- noticed that libpgport.a had and needed a dependency on errcodes.h - that
  seemed wrong. The dependency is due to src/port/*p{read,write}v?.c including
  postgres.h - which seems wrong. So I added a patch changing them to include
  c.h.


One thing I just realized is that the existing autoconf/make and
src/tools/msvc buildsystems don't generate static libraries for e.g. libpq. So
far the meson build generates both static and shared libraries on windows
too.

Meson solves the naming conflict that presumably lead to us not generating
static libraries on windows by naming the link library for dlls's differently
than static libraries.

I'm inclined to build the static lib on windows as long as we do it on other
platforms.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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