Re: make dist using git archive

On Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 12:28 AM CST, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 25.01.24 17:25, Tristan Partin wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I run Meson 1.3, and the behavior of generating the
> > tarballs even though it is a dirty tree still occurred. In the new patch
> > you seem to say it was fixed in 0.60.
>
> The problem I'm referring to is that before 0.60, alias_target cannot
> depend on run_target (only "build target").  This is AFAICT not
> documented and might not have been an intentional change, but you can
> trace it in the meson source code, and it shows in the PostgreSQL CI.
> That's also why for the above bzip2 issue I have to use custom_target in
> place of your run_target.

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/12783

Thanks for finding these issues.

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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)