Hi,
On 2023-02-01 14:20:19 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2023-02-01 09:49:00 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> On 2023-02-01 12:23:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> And the minimum version appears to be newer than RHEL8's 1.8.2, which
> >>> I find pretty unfortunate.
>
> > Unfortunately the test script accidentally pulled in ninja from epel,
> > hence not noticing the issue.
>
> Ah. For myself, pulling the newer version from epel would not be a big
> problem. I think what we need to do is figure out what is the minimum
> ninja version we want to support, and then see if we need to make any
> of these changes. I don't have hard data on which distros have which
> versions of ninja, but surely somebody checked that at some point?
I did survey available meson versions, and chose what features to
use. But not really ninja, since I didn't know about this specific issue
and other than this the ninja version differences were handled by meson.
As all the issues are related to more precise dependencies, I somehwat
wonder if it'd be good enough to use less accurate dependencies with
1.8.2. But I don't like it.
Greetings,
Andres Freund