Hi, On 2025-06-17 13:48:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> writes: > > I see that Rocky Linux 8 ships with Meson 0.58.2 [0], so maybe that is a > > good target to aim for. (I don't know if that carried over from RHEL 8 > > or is their own doing.) But there aren't any compelling features new in > > 0.58 (format strings seem nice but are pretty much cosmetic), so maybe > > setting the minimum to 0.57 is enough. > > RHEL 8 does include meson 0.58.2. However, it also ships ninja 1.8.2 > which is too old: > > $ meson setup build > ... > Found ninja-1.8.2 at /usr/bin/ninja > ninja: error: build.ninja:7378: multiple outputs aren't (yet?) supported by > depslog; bring this up on the mailing list if it affects you > > WARNING: Could not create compilation database.
IIRC we discussed this before, in some other thread. We could make that work, but at the time we didn't consider it worth working on. > So in the Red Hat universe, the first release that has usable meson > infrastructure for our purposes is RHEL 9, which has meson 0.63.3 > and ninja 1.10.2. Not sure how that factors into this calculation. > But unless we can back off our minimum ninja version, it's going > to be a long time before we can abandon the makefiles. >From my POV, which I am sure is not uniformly shared, we don't need to support new major PG versions on things like RHEL 8. After all full support for RHEL 8 has ended a year ago. Greetings, Andres Freund
