Hi,
On 2022-09-30 08:59:53 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-09-30 11:45:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > > One concern with that is that default would also apply to windows - autoconf
> > > didn't have to care about that. I just tried it, and it "just" ends up
> > > installing it into c:/usr/local/pgsql (assuming the build dir is in
> > > c:/<something>). I think that's something we could live with, but it's worth
> > > thinking about.
> >
> > Can we have a platform-dependent default?
>
> Not easily in that spot, I think.
For background: The reason for that is that meson doesn't yet know what the
host/build environment is, because those can be influenced by
default_options. We can run programs though, so if we really want to set some
platform dependent default, we can.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
