Hi, On 2026-02-16 14:01:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > I happened to notice that syscache_info.h is installed into > > $installdir/include/server/catalog if you use a non-VPATH > > autoconf build, but not if you use a VPATH build or meson. > > This is not great IMO.
Indeed. If it were trivial to not install it, I'd have gone that way, but it looks like it's not... > > Just to confuse matters even more, meson builds install a copy of > > src/include/catalog/README, which autoconf builds do not. > > > ISTM we need to get these things in sync. > > Here's a proposed patch for that. I've confirmed we get identical > filesets from all three build methods with this. Nice. > Although this seems like clearly a bug, I'm not sure anyone would > thank us for changing the behavior in back branches; particularly > not packagers, who tend to pay close attention to the set of files > installed. So I'm inclined to apply this to master only. Agreed. Given that syscache_info.h should never be needed, it's not like it'll bother anyone that it's not there. And it looks like src/include/catalog/README is new enough that the installation in meson happens only on master anyway. Greetings, Andres Freund
