Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Shubham Khanna <khannashubham1197(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree
Date: 2023-12-19 15:24:02
Message-ID: 454653fd-d2ab-45f1-9568-9342c1ed9d77@eisentraut.org
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On 18.12.23 14:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 2) I had seen that if sed/gzip is not available meson build will fail:
>> 2.a)
>> Program gsed sed found: NO
>> meson.build:334:6: ERROR: Program 'gsed sed' not found or not executable
>
> Yes, this would need to be improved.  Currently, sed is only required if
> either selinux or dtrace is enabled, which isn't supported on Windows.
> But we should adjust the build scripts to not fail the top-level setup
> run unless those options are enabled.
>
>> 2.b)
>> Program gzip found: NO
>> meson.build:337:7: ERROR: Program 'gzip' not found or not executable
>
> gzip is only required for certain test suites, so again we should adjust
> the build scripts to not fail the build but instead skip the tests as
> appropriate.

Here are patches for these two issues. More testing would be appreciated.

Attachment Content-Type Size
0001-meson-Require-sed-only-when-needed.patch text/plain 1.2 KB
0002-meson-Make-gzip-and-tar-optional.patch text/plain 3.8 KB

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