Hi,
On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 at 18:05, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 at 17:03, Miłosz Bieniek <bieniek.milosz0@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > pt., 28 lis 2025 o 12:53 Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> napisał(a):
> > >
> > > On 27.11.25 10:28, Miłosz Bieniek wrote:
> > > > While reviewing a patch I noticed that we have a `make -s headerscheck`
> > > > but there is no equivalent in meson.
> > > > I prepared a small patch that adds `headerscheck` and `cpluspluscheck`
> > > > targets.
> > >
> > > This would be good to have, but I don't think your patch works. It
> > > seems you need to add the srcdir and builddir command-line arguments to
> > > the invocations.
> > >
> >
> > I think you are right. I added srcdir and builddir arguments.
>
> The headerscheck script pulls some information from Makefile.global
> after the configure [1] but meson does not generate a full version of
> Makefile.global [2], so it does not have the required information to
> check perl and python headers. If you run 'meson compile
> headerscheck', you get errors like:
Sorry, I clicked send early.
Two solutions came to my mind but I am not sure which one is better:
1) We can add missing information to the generated Makefile.global in
the meson.build.
2) We can send required information as arguments to the headerscheck script.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft
