Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13
Date
Msg-id 1218789.1663782997@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to [RFC] building postgres with meson  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I think we should:

> - convert windows to build with ninja - it builds faster, runs all tests,
>   parallelizes tests. That means that msbuild based builds don't have coverage
>   via CI / cfbot, but we don't currently have the resources to test both.

Check.  The sooner we can get rid of the custom MSVC scripts, the better,
because now we'll be on the hook to maintain *three* build systems.

> - add a linux build using meson, we currently can afford building both with
>   autoconf and meson for linux

Right.

> I'm less clear on whether we should convert macos / freebsd to meson at this
> point?

We certainly could debug/polish the meson stuff just on linux and windows
for now, but is there a reason to wait on the others?

            regards, tom lane



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