Thread: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2022-Sep-22, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Initial reports from the cfbot are mostly promising, but there are a few
>> patches where all the meson builds fail while all the autoconf ones pass,
>> so there's something for you to look at.  So far CF entries 3464, 3733,
>> 3771, 3808 look that way.

> Hmm, but those patches add files, which means they're now outdated: they
> need to add these files to the respective meson.build file.

Ah, right, the joys of maintaining multiple build systems.  I wonder
if there's any way to avoid that by scraping file lists from one
group to the other.  We got a little spoiled perhaps by the MSVC
scripts managing to do that in most cases.

            regards, tom lane

On 2022-Sep-22, Tom Lane wrote:

> Ah, right, the joys of maintaining multiple build systems.  I wonder
> if there's any way to avoid that by scraping file lists from one
> group to the other.

Or maybe we could have a file common to both, say OBJS, which both
scrape in their own way.  That could be easier than one scraping the
other.

> We got a little spoiled perhaps by the MSVC scripts managing to do
> that in most cases.

Right ... and it was so annoying in the cases it couldn't.

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