Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson -v8

On 2022-06-14 20:47:59 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 14.06.22 20:27, Andres Freund wrote:
> > One thing I'm not quite sure about: Why does the makefile need awareness of
> > the stop files, but Install.pm doesn't? I suspect currently the patch leads to
> > stopwords not being installed on windows anymore?
>
> Install.pm contains this elsewhere:
>
> GenerateTsearchFiles($target);
> CopySetOfFiles(
> 'Stopword files',
> [ glob("src\\backend\\snowball\\stopwords\\*.stop") ],
> $target . '/share/tsearch_data/');
>
> It's a bit confusing that the "generate" function that we are patching also
> installs some of the files right away, while the rest is installed by the
> calling function.

Ugh, that's confusing indeed. Thanks for the explanation.