Re: buildfarm + meson

On 2023-03-07 18:26:21 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-02-23 06:27:23 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Yeah. For touch I think we can probably just get rid of this line in the
> > root meson.build:
> >
> > touch = find_program('touch', native: true)
>
> Yep.
>
> > For cp there doesn't seem to be a formal requirement, but there is a recipe
> > in src/common/unicode/meson.build that uses it, maybe that's what caused the
> > failure. On Windows/msvc we could just use copy instead, I think.
>
> I don't know about using copy, it's very easy to get into trouble due to
> interpreting forward slashes as options etc. I propose that for now we just
> don't support update-unicode if cp isn't available - just as already not
> available when wget isn't available.
>
> Planning to apply something like the attached soon, unless somebody opposes
> that plan.

Done.