Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson -v8

Hi,

On 2022-06-01 06:55:06 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> On 06.05.22 23:27, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I added pkgconfig since then. They're not exactly the same, but pretty close,
> > except for one thing: Looks like some of the ecpg libraries really should link
> > to some other ecpg libs? I think we're missing something there... That then
> > leads to missing requirements in the .pc files.
>
> I took a closer look at the generated pkgconfig files. I think they are ok.
> There are a couple of insignificant textual differences that we could reduce
> by patching Makefile.shlib. But technically they are ok.

Thanks for checking!

> There is one significant difference: the ecpg libraries now get a
> Requires.private for openssl, which I think is technically correct since
> both libpgcommon and libpgport require openssl.

Yea, I noticed those too. It's not great, somehow. But I don't really see a
better alternative for now.

> Attached is a tiny patch to make the description in one file backward
> consistent.

Applied.

Greetings,

Andres Freund