Re: buildfarm + meson

On 2023-03-18 Sa 21:32, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 2023-03-18 Sa 19:00, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2023-03-18 17:53:38 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> On 2023-03-11 Sa 16:25, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 2023-03-09 18:31:10 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>>> Another thing: the test for uuid.h is too strict. On Fedora 36 the OSSP
>>>>> header is in /usr/include, not /usr/include/ossp (I got around that for now
>>>>> by symlinking it, but obviously that's a nasty hack we can't ask people to
>>>>> do)
>>>> Yea, that was just wrong. It happened to work on debian and a few other OSs,
>>>> but ossp's .pc puts whatever the right directory is into the include
>>>> path. Pushed the fairly obvious fix.
>>> Another issue: building plpython appears impossible on Windows because it's
>>> finding meson's own python:
>>>
>>>
>>> Program python3 found: YES (C:\Program Files\Meson\meson.exe runpython)
>>> Could not find Python3 library 'C:\\Program
>>> Files\\Meson\\libs\\python311.lib'
>> Any more details - windows CI builds with python. What python do you want to
>> use and where is it installed?
>>
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> It's in c:/python37, which is at the front of the PATH. It fails as
> above if I add -Dplpython=enabled to the config.
>

Looks like the answer is not to install using the MSI installer, which
provides its own Python, but to install meson and ninja into an existing
python installation via pip. That's a bit sad, but manageable.

cheers

andrew

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