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Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v11

samay sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>

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From: samay sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-09-08T07:20:33Z
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Hi,

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 9:48 PM Peter Eisentraut <
peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> On 02.09.22 19:16, samay sharma wrote:
> > Another thing I'd like input on. A common question I've heard from
> > people who've tried out the docs is How do we do the equivalent of X in
> > make with meson. As meson will be new for a bunch of people who are
> > fluent with make, I won't be surprised if this is a common ask. To
> > address that, I was planning to add a page to specify the key things one
> > needs to keep in mind while "migrating" from make to meson and having a
> > translation table of commonly used commands.
> >
> > I was planning to add it in the meson section, but if we go ahead with
> > the structure proposed above, it doesn't fit it into one as cleanly.
> > Maybe, it still goes in the meson section? Thoughts?
>
> This could go into the wiki.
>
> For example, we have
> <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Git>, which was added
> during the CVS->Git transition.
>

That's a good idea. I'll add a page to the wiki about this topic and share
it on the list for review.


>
> This avoids that we make the PostgreSQL documentation a substitute
> manual for a third-party product.
>

Regards,
Samay

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