Hi, On 2022-09-30 08:59:53 -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2022-09-30 11:45:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > > One concern with that is that default would also apply to windows - > > > autoconf > > > didn't have to care about that. I just tried it, and it "just" ends up > > > installing it into c:/usr/local/pgsql (assuming the build dir is in > > > c:/<something>). I think that's something we could live with, but it's > > > worth > > > thinking about. > > > > Can we have a platform-dependent default? > > Not easily in that spot, I think.
For background: The reason for that is that meson doesn't yet know what the host/build environment is, because those can be influenced by default_options. We can run programs though, so if we really want to set some platform dependent default, we can. Greetings, Andres Freund
