Re: PSA: Autoconf has risen from the dead

Hi,

On 2022-07-05 14:42:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 1:17 PM Andres Freund  wrote:
> > Yea, I guess I should start a documentation section...
> >
> > I've only used homebrew on mac, but with that it should be something along the
> > lines of
> >
> > brew install meson
> > meson setup --buildtype debug -Dcassert=true build-directory
> > cd build-directory
> > ninja
> >
> > of course if you want to build against some dependencies and / or run tap
> > tests, you need to do something similar to what you have to do for
> > configure. I.e.
> > - install perl modules [1]
> > - tell the build about location of homebrew [2]
> 
> Since I'm a macports user I hope at some point we'll have directions
> for that as well as for homebrew.

I am not a normal mac user, it looks hard to run macos in a VM, and I'm not
sure it's wise to mix macports and homebrew on my test box. So I don't want to
test it myself.

But it looks like it's just
  sudo port install meson

Greetings,

Andres Freund