Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson -v9

Hi,

On 2022-07-13 08:39:45 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 06.07.22 15:21, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > - This patch is for unifying the list of languages in NLS, as
> > > previously discussed:https://commitfest.postgresql.org/38/3737/
> > There seems little downside to doing so, so ...
>
> This has been committed, so on the next rebase, the languages arguments can
> be removed from the i18n.gettext() calls.

That's done in v10 I posted yesterday.

On 2022-07-06 11:03:31 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 3bf5b317d5 meson: prereq: Specify output directory for psql sql help script.
> 2e5ed807f8 meson: prereq: ecpg: add and use output directory argument for
> parse.pl.
> 4e7fab01c5 meson: prereq: msvc: explicit output file for pgflex.pl
> cdcd3da4c4 meson: prereq: add output path arg in generate-lwlocknames.pl
> 1f655486e4 meson: prereq: generate-errcodes.pl: accept output file
> e834c48758 meson: prereq: unicode: allow to specify output directory.
>
> You said you are still finalizing these. I think we can move ahead with
> these once that is done.

I tried to address the pending things in these patches.

> 9f4a9b1749 meson: prereq: move snowball_create.sql creation into perl file.
>
> This looks ready, except I think it needs to be hooked into the
> distprep target, since it's now a Perl script running at build time.

Done. I vacillated between doing the distprep rule in
src/backend/snowball/Makefile (as most things outside of the backend do) and
src/backend/Makefile (most backend things). Ended up with doing it in
snowball/Makefile.

Greetings,

Andres Freund