Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, samay sharma <smilingsamay(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13
Date: 2022-09-21 17:56:37
Message-ID: 1218789.1663782997@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> I think we should:

> - convert windows to build with ninja - it builds faster, runs all tests,
> parallelizes tests. That means that msbuild based builds don't have coverage
> via CI / cfbot, but we don't currently have the resources to test both.

Check. The sooner we can get rid of the custom MSVC scripts, the better,
because now we'll be on the hook to maintain *three* build systems.

> - add a linux build using meson, we currently can afford building both with
> autoconf and meson for linux

Right.

> I'm less clear on whether we should convert macos / freebsd to meson at this
> point?

We certainly could debug/polish the meson stuff just on linux and windows
for now, but is there a reason to wait on the others?

regards, tom lane

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