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Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: NINGWEI CHEN <chen@sraoss.co.jp>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, buildfarm@sraoss.co.jp
Date: 2023-12-04T20:11:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2023-12-04 Mo 03:05, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 12:17:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 2023-09-26 Tu 01:25, NINGWEI CHEN wrote:
>>> hamerkop is not yet prepared for Meson builds, but we plan to work on this support soon.
>>> If we go with Meson builds exclusively right now, we will have to temporarily remove the master/HEAD for a while.
>> I don't think we should switch to that until you're ready.
> Agreed that it would just be breaking a build for the sake of breaking
> it.  Saying that, the last exchange that we had about hamerkop
> switching to meson was two months ago.  Are there any plans to do the
> switch?


I just had a look at shifting bowerbird to use meson, and it got stymied 
at the c99 test, which apparently doesn't compile with anything less 
than VS2019.

I can upgrade bowerbird, but that will take rather longer. It looks like 
hamerkop is in th4e same boat.


cheers


andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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Commits

  1. Make win32tzlist.pl checkable again

  2. meson: Make gzip and tar optional

  3. meson: Make sed optional

  4. Remove MSVC scripts

  5. Replace Gen_dummy_probes.sed with Gen_dummy_probes.pl