On 2026-05-12 21:59:41 -0700, Igor Korot wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:52 PM Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > > I’m not running Postgres server. It is running on the different > machines. All I need is to build the client library. Why can’t I? Why > it should matter what software (OS/compiler) I’m using? As long as I > can successfully build my software and test it it should be fine. > > > David made it pretty clear: the PGDG changed the toolchain, > > > It didn’t change the toolchain - it changed configuration tools. But it’s not > the point.
They switched from Make to Meson. In my book the build automation tool
is very much part of the toolchain.
> The point I’m making is that the software was providing the makefile and now
> it
> does not.
Because they now use Meson instead of Make. Meson doesn't use Makefiles
but dependency files with a different syntax.
hjp
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