Re: Python installation selection in Meson

On 2023-11-28 Tu 13:02, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I noticed that under meson, the selection of the Python installation
> using the 'PYTHON' option doesn't work completely.  The 'PYTHON'
> option determined the Python binary that will be used to call the
> various build support programs.  But it doesn't affect the Python
> installation used for PL/Python.  For that, we need to pass the
> program determined by the 'PYTHON' option back into the
> find_installation() routine of the python module.  (Otherwise,
> find_installation() will just search for an installation on its own.) 
> See attached patch.  I ran this through Cirrus, seems to work.

I noticed when working on the meson/windows stuff that meson would try
to build plpython against its python installation, which failed
miserably. The workaround was to abandon separate meson/ninja
installations via chocolatey, and instead install them using pip. Maybe
this was as a result of the above problem?

cheers

andrew

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