Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think we're going to need some solution to this problem. We have too
> many people here with strong opinions about questions like this for me
> to feel good about the idea that we're going to collectively be OK
> with leaving these sorts of decisions up to some other project.

Agreed. I'm willing to put up with the costs of moving to some
other build system, but not if it dictates choices we don't want to
make about the end products.

> From my point of view, the time it takes to run configure is annoying,
> but the build time is pretty fine. On my system, configure takes about
> 33 seconds, and a full rebuild with 'make -j8' takes 14.5 seconds (I
> am using ccache). Moreover, most of the time when I run make, I'm only
> doing a partial rebuild, so it's near-instantaneous.

Read about Autoconf's --cache-file option. That and ccache are
absolutely essential tools IMO.

regards, tom lane