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Re: meson and check-tests

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: 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: 2025-12-16T20:53:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2025-12-08 Mo 3:12 AM, Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 at 06:33, Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2025-11-27 Th 5:19 AM, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 at 01:16, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>>>> Committed
>>>> Here is a small follow-up commit for documenting this feature.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> +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'.
> Done in v2.


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.


Maybe that's a topic for another day.


cheers


andrew

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