Re: meson and check-tests

Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>

From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Tristan Partin <tristan@partin.io>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-12-17T07:13:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 at 23:53, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 2025-12-08 Mo 3:12 AM, Bilal Yavuz wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 at 06:33, Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 2025-11-27 Th 5:19 AM, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 at 01:16, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> Committed
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> Here is a small follow-up commit for documenting this feature.
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> This really belongs in the "meson" section. We need to add a new para
> there similar to the "make" section para you are trying to amend here.
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> +1. I think we should follow a structure similar to the chapter
> "installation from source code" which has a separate section for meson
> at the same level as 'make and autoconf'.
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> Done in v2.
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> Thanks, that's better. But I'm wondering if this section shouldn't be moved to regress.sgml, alongside the equivalent for configure style builds, and linked to from here in the same way.
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> Maybe that's a topic for another day.

Thank you for looking at it!

Yes, as I wrote in v1, I had originally expected this section to live
under regress.sgml. And, I agree, that is probably a topic for another
day

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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft