Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v13

Hi,

On 2022-09-26 14:15:35 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 1:27 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > > Some feedback:
> > > * I gather that "running" as it appears in commands like "meson test
> > > --setup running" refers to a particular setup named "running", that
> > > you invented as part of creating a meson-ish substitute for
> > > installcheck. Can "running" be renamed to something that makes it
> > > obvious that it's a Postgres thing, and not a generic meson thing?
> >
> > Yes. The only caveat is that it makes lines longer, because it's included in
> > the printed test line (there's no real requirement to have the test suite and
> > the setup named the same,b ut it seems confusing not to)
>
> Probably doesn't have to be too long. And I'm not sure of the details.
> Just a small thing from my point of view.

Attached is an updated version of that patch. I left the name as 'running'
because a postgres- or pg- prefix felt to awkward. This just adds fairly
minimal documentation for the 'running' setup, while we now have some basic
docs for building with meson, we don't yet have a "translation" of
regress.sgml. Not sure how to structure that best, either.

I plan to commit that soon. This likely isn't the be-all-end-all, but it's
quite useful as-is.

Greetings,

Andres Freund