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Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson -v8

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-03-28T19:59:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2022-03-25 10:01:09 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 22.03.22 03:22, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Attached is v8. It's just a rebase to resolve conflicts with recent changes.
> 
> I have committed the DLSUFFIX refactoring, and also a stripped-down version
> of the patch that makes update-unicode work with vpath.  This takes care of
> patches 0007 and 0009.

Thanks!


> The only other thing IMO that might be worth addressing in PG15 is the
> snowball scripts refactoring (0002 and 0003), but that doesn't seem quite
> ready yet.  (At least, it would need to be integrated into the distprep
> target, since it adds a dependency on perl.)  Maybe it's not worth it right
> now.

Not sure myself.


> With that, I suggest moving this patch set to CF 2022-07.

Done.


One thing I'd like to discuss fairly soon is what kind of approach to take for
integrating meson support. Most other projects I looked kept parallel
buildsystems for at least a release, so that there's one round of "broad" user
feedback.

In our context it could make sense to merge meson, after a few months of
shakeup remove the current windows buildsystems, and then in release + 1
remove the make based stuff.

But we can have that discussion that before the next CF, but still after
code-freeze & immediate mopup.


> A general comment on the remaining prereq patches:  We appear to be
> accumulating a mix of conventions for how "generate" scripts specify their
> output file.  Some have it built-in, some use the last argument, some use an
> option, which might be -o or --output.  Maybe we can gently work toward more
> commonality there.

Fair point.

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