Re: make dist using git archive

On 22.03.24 18:29, Tristan Partin wrote:
> On Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 3:44 AM CDT, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Here is an updated version of this patch set.
>
> You should add 'disabler: true' to the git find_program in Meson. If Git
> doesn't exist on the system with the way your patch is currently
> written, the targets would be defined, even though they would never
> succeed.

Ok, added. (I had it in there in an earlier version, but I think I
misread one of your earlier messages and removed it.)

> You may also want to make sure that we are actually in a Git repository.
> I don't think git-archive works outside one.

Then git archive will print an error. That seems ok.

> Re the autoclrf, is this something we could throw in a .gitattributes
> files?

We don't want to apply it to all git commands, just this one in this
context.

> I would suggest poisoning `meson dist` in the following way:
>
> if not meson.is_subproject()
[...]
>     meson.add_dist_script(perl, '-e', 'exit 1')
> endif

Good idea, added that.

>> I have extracted the freebsd CI script fix into a separate patch
>> (0002).   I think this is useful even if we don't take the full CI
>> patch (0003).
>
> 0002 looks pretty reasonable to me.

Committed that one in the meantime.