Meson vs. Solaris

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Cc: Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>
Date: 2026-02-07T21:21:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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I wondered why Greg Burd's new buildfarm animal "icarus" hasn't
yet managed to complete a successful run.  The symptoms suggest
that getopt() isn't doing what we want:

/scratch/build/HEAD/pgsql.build/tmp_install/scratch/build/HEAD/inst/bin/postgres: illegal option -- cluster-name=node1
Try "postgres --help" for more information.

But we have other BF animals running on OpenIndiana (Solaris)
without trouble.

On investigation, it seems that Greg is the first to try to use
the meson build system on Solaris, and it doesn't work.  Our
Autoconf infrastructure knows that we should use our own getopt()
because Solaris's doesn't do what we want.  meson.build did try
to copy that logic:

always_replace_getopt = host_system in ['windows', 'cygwin', 'openbsd', 'solaris']

However, as seen elsewhere in that file, 'solaris' is not the
value of host_system on this platform!  It's 'sunos'.  So we
are trying to use the system's getopt(), and then the failure is
completely expected.

I've verified on a local OpenIndiana VM that the attached patch
makes it work.  Also, a quick grep doesn't find any other cases
of the same error in our meson.build files.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. meson: host_system value for Solaris is 'sunos' not 'solaris'.