I gave the meson build system a try, and it seems to work nicely. It
didn't take long at all to adapt my workflow.
A few notes from my experience:
* I'm using an Ubuntu-based distribution, and the version of meson that apt
installed was not new enough for Postgres. I ended up cloning meson [0]
and using the newest tag. This is no big deal.
* The installed binaries were unable to locate libraries like libpq. I
ended up setting the extra_lib_dirs option to the directory where these
libraries were installed to fix this. This one is probably worth
investigating further.
* meson really doesn't like it when there are things leftover from
configure/make. Whenever I switch from make to meson, I have to run 'make
maintainer-clean'.
Otherwise, all of my usual build options, ccache, etc. are working just
like before. Nice work!
[0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
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