On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 4:01 AM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]> wrote: > After thinking more about that, I am not sure if that is an acceptable > solution. In the Postgres docs [1] we mention that 'GNU make' is not > needed when Postgres is built with meson and I think we don't want to > break this promise.
I don't think it should be required for someone to run the build itself. But realistically, saying "hey to perform this one-off generation task as a contributor, you need GNU make as well" is not a step backwards. > Perhaps this is acceptable because the current > case is specific and not widely used. Right. That's what I was alluding to when I said I wasn't sure about update-po -- I couldn't remember whether it was tangled into any of the other build logic. I don't think it is, though. > Also, I realized that there is no way to regenerate SSL files like > sslfiles.mk does :(. I don't think anyone has asked yet. It'd be a SMOP to have Meson invoke the Makefile for you... but running Make manually when a new certificate is sporadically added is a pretty small cost already. Just my two cents. Thanks, --Jacob
