Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson

Hi,

On 2021-10-13 13:19:36 -0400, John Naylor wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:37 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> > For the autoconf build CI currently does something similar via
> > LIBS="/usr/local/lib:$LIBS"
> > INCLUDES="/usr/local/include:$INCLUDES"
> > ...
> > LIBS="/usr/local/opt/openldap/lib:$LIBS"
> > INCLUDES="/usr/local/opt/openldap/include:$INCLUDES"
> > ...
> > --with-includes="$INCLUDES" \
> > --with-libs="$LIBS" \
> >
> > are you doing something like that? Or does it work for you without? I
> vaguely
> > recall hitting a similar problem as you report when not passing
> > /usr/local/... to configure.
>
> I didn't do anything like that for the autoconf build. I have in the past
> done things retail, like

I'll try to see how this works / what causes the breakage.

> Somehow our emails got lower-cased down here, but I tried it with capital D:

:)

> meson configure -Dldap=disabled
>
> inside the build dir and got this:
>
> ../meson.build:278:2: ERROR: Tried to assign the invalid value "None" of
> type NoneType to variable.
>
> Line 278 is
>
> ldap_r = ldap = dependency('', required : false)

Oops, I broke that when trying to clean things up. I guess I write too much C
;). It needs to be two lines.

I pushed the fix for that.

Greetings,

Andres Freund