| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH v1] [meson] add a default option prefix=/usr/local/pgsql |
| Date: | 2022-09-30 17:01:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20220930170114.onfh4c54tgdeuzol@awork3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2022-09-30 08:59:53 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-09-30 11:45:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > > One concern with that is that default would also apply to windows - autoconf
> > > didn't have to care about that. I just tried it, and it "just" ends up
> > > installing it into c:/usr/local/pgsql (assuming the build dir is in
> > > c:/<something>). I think that's something we could live with, but it's worth
> > > thinking about.
> >
> > Can we have a platform-dependent default?
>
> Not easily in that spot, I think.
For background: The reason for that is that meson doesn't yet know what the
host/build environment is, because those can be influenced by
default_options. We can run programs though, so if we really want to set some
platform dependent default, we can.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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