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

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson
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Msg-id 20211012204256.ie2l7j6unbbtioj5@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Hi,

On 2021-10-12 16:02:14 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> You need to build against a native perl, like Strawberry or ActiveState.
> (I have had mixed success with Strawberry)

Do you understand why that is needed?


> You do that by putting a path to it at the start of the PATH. The wrinkle in
> this is that you need prove to point to one that understands virtual
> paths. So you do something like this:
> 
> 
> PATH="/c/perl/bin:$PATH" PROVE=/bin/core_perl/prove configure ...

Oh my.

I'll try that later... I wonder if we could make this easier from our side?
This is a lot of magic to know.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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