On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 4:37 AM Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote:

[Meson prototype]

The build code looks pretty approachable for someone with no prior
exposure, and feels pretty nice when running it (I couldn't get a build
working but I'll leave that aside for now).

> As far as I can tell the only OS that postgres currently supports that
> meson doesn't support is HPUX. It'd likely be fairly easy to add
> gcc-on-hpux support, a chunk more to add support for the proprietary
> ones.

That would also have to work for all the dependencies, which were displayed
to me as:

ninja, gdbm, ca-certificates, [email protected], readline, sqlite and [email protected]

Also, could utility makefile targets be made to work? I'm thinking in
particular of update-unicode and reformat-dat-files, for example.

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John Naylor
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