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List:       postgresql-hackers
Subject:    Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson -v8
From:       Andres Freund <andres () anarazel ! de>
Date:       2022-04-29 20:11:45
Message-ID: 20220429201145.4zjpo7m64w4pdrp7 () alap3 ! anarazel ! de
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Hi,

On 2022-04-29 11:00:43 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-04-27 21:56:27 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Here is a patch that adds in NLS.
> 
> Cool! I know very little about translations, so I was reticent tackling
> this...

> > The annoying thing is that the i18n module doesn't appear to have a way to
> > communicate with feature options or dependencies, so there isn't a way to
> > tell it to only do its things when some option is enabled, or conversely to
> > check whether the module found the things it needs and to enable or disable
> > an option based on that.  So right now for example if you explicitly disable
> > the 'nls' option, the binaries are built without NLS but the .mo files are
> > still built and installed.
> 
> One partial way to deal with that, I think, would be to change all the
> subdir('po') invocations to subdir('po', if_found: libintl). If we don't want
> that for some reason, is there a reason a simple if libintl.found() wouldn't
> work?

Merged into my tree now, using if_found. I've also made the intl check work
with older meson versions, since I didn't include your version requirement
upgrades.


For now I "fixed" the ecpg issue on windows by just not building ecpg
there. Ecpg also needs tests ported...

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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