Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: "shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, "wangw(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <wangw(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, samay sharma <smilingsamay(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13
Date: 2022-10-13 16:39:41
Message-ID: 20221013163941.insqvpudbfnxo7v7@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-10-13 09:24:51 +0000, shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com wrote:
> I noticed that `pg_config --configure` didn't show the options given when
> building with meson.

Yes, that was noted somewhere on this thread.

> Maybe it would be better if pg_config can output this information, to be
> consistent with the output when building with `./configure` and `make`.
>
> The output when building with `./configure` and `make`:
> $ pg_config --configure
> '--prefix=/home/postgres/install/' '--cache' 'gcc.cache' '--enable-dtrace' '--with-icu' '--enable-cassert'

It'd be a fair amount of work, both initially and to maintain it, to generate
something compatible. I can see some benefit in showing some feature
influencing output in --configure, but compatible output doesn't seem worth it
to me.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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