On 18.12.23 14:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 2) I had seen that if sed/gzip is not available meson build will fail:
>> 2.a)
>> Program gsed sed found: NO
>> meson.build:334:6: ERROR: Program 'gsed sed' not found or not executable
>
> Yes, this would need to be improved. Currently, sed is only required if
> either selinux or dtrace is enabled, which isn't supported on Windows.
> But we should adjust the build scripts to not fail the top-level setup
> run unless those options are enabled.
>
>> 2.b)
>> Program gzip found: NO
>> meson.build:337:7: ERROR: Program 'gzip' not found or not executable
>
> gzip is only required for certain test suites, so again we should adjust
> the build scripts to not fail the build but instead skip the tests as
> appropriate.
Here are patches for these two issues. More testing would be appreciated.