On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 01:28:09PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2022-09-22 13:05:33 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote: >> * I'm using an Ubuntu-based distribution, and the version of meson that apt >> installed was not new enough for Postgres. I ended up cloning meson [0] >> and using the newest tag. This is no big deal. > > I assume this is 20.04 LTS? If so, we're missing it by one version of meson > currently. There's unfortunately a few features that'd be a bit painful to not > have.
Yes. I imagine I'll upgrade to 22.04 LTS soon, which appears to provide a new enough version of meson. >> * The installed binaries were unable to locate libraries like libpq. I >> ended up setting the extra_lib_dirs option to the directory where these >> libraries were installed to fix this. This one is probably worth >> investigating further. > > I think that should be "fixed" in a later commit in the meson tree - any > chance you could try that? Yup, after cherry-picking 9bc60bc, this is fixed. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com