Re: meson vs tarballs

2024-03-13 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On 13.03.24 07:42, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> On 2024-03-13 We 02:31, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Alternatively, PostgreSQL can be built using Meson. This is currently experimental and only works when building from a Git checkout (not from a distribution

Re: meson vs tarballs

2024-03-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 13.03.24 07:42, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 2024-03-13 We 02:31, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 2024-03-13 We 02:22, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 13.03.24 07:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote: I and several colleagues have just been trying to build from a tarball with meson. That seems pretty awful and

Re: meson vs tarballs

2024-03-13 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2024-03-13 We 02:31, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 2024-03-13 We 02:22, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 13.03.24 07:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote: I and several colleagues have just been trying to build from a tarball with meson. That seems pretty awful and unfriendly and I didn't see anything about

Re: meson vs tarballs

2024-03-13 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2024-03-13 We 02:22, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 13.03.24 07:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote: I and several colleagues have just been trying to build from a tarball with meson. That seems pretty awful and unfriendly and I didn't see anything about it in the docs. At

Re: meson vs tarballs

2024-03-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 13.03.24 07:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote: I and several colleagues have just been trying to build from a tarball with meson. That seems pretty awful and unfriendly and I didn't see anything about it in the docs. At https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/install-requirements.html is says: """

meson vs tarballs

2024-03-13 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I and several colleagues have just been trying to build from a tarball with meson. `meson setup build .` results in this: [...] Message: checking for file conflicts between source and build directory meson.build:2963:2: ERROR: Problem encountered: Non-clean source code directory