Hi, On 2022-08-07 01:17:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2022-08-06 22:55:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> IMO, it'd be entirely reasonable for Andres to say that *he* doesn't > >> want to fix the meson build scripts for niche platform X. Then > >> it'd be up to people who care about platform X to make that happen. > >> Given the current plan of supporting the Makefiles for some years > >> more, there wouldn't even be any great urgency in that. > > > The "problem" in this case is that maintaining pgxs compatibility, as we'd > > discussed at pgcon, requires emitting stuff for all the @whatever@ things in > > Makefile.global.in, including with_gnu_ld. > > Sure, but why can't you just leave that for later by hard-wiring it > to false in the meson build? As long as you don't break the Makefile > build, no one is worse off.
Yea, that's what I am doing now. But it's a fair bit of work figuring out which values need at least approximately correct values and which not. It'd be nice if we had an automated way of building a lot of the extensions out there... > I think if we want to get this past the finish line, we need to > acknowledge that the initial commit isn't going to be perfect. > The whole point of continuing to maintain the Makefiles is to > give us breathing room to fix remaining issues in a leisurely > fashion. Wholeheartedly agreed. Greetings, Andres Freund
