On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 12:40 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-10-13 09:24:51 +0000, shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com wrote:
> > I noticed that `pg_config --configure` didn't show the options given when
> > building with meson.
>
> Yes, that was noted somewhere on this thread.
>
>
> > Maybe it would be better if pg_config can output this information, to be
> > consistent with the output when building with `./configure` and `make`.
> >
> > The output when building with `./configure` and `make`:
> > $ pg_config --configure
> > '--prefix=/home/postgres/install/' '--cache' 'gcc.cache' '--enable-dtrace' '--
> with-icu' '--enable-cassert'
>
> It'd be a fair amount of work, both initially and to maintain it, to generate
> something compatible. I can see some benefit in showing some feature
> influencing output in --configure, but compatible output doesn't seem worth it
> to me.
>
I agree that there are some benefits to showing that, which helps to confirm the
build options. Although that can be confirmed from the compile log, but the log
may not be available all the time.
And it's ok for me that the output is not exactly the same as before.
Regards,
Shi yu