Re: please build packages --with-lz4

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:45:08AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Justin Pryzby (pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com) wrote:
> > Would you plan to build packages --with-lz4 ?
> >
> > See commit bbe0a81db69bd10bd166907c3701492a29aca294
> > Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.
> >
> > Also, a reminder about this old thread.
> > The devel packages should be built with a versions like (I think)
> > 0.1.14.0-alpha*
>
> I have to wonder why we aren't just automatically checking if lz4 is
> available and enabling it when it is...

I assume you mean at compile time, regarding autoconf macros ?

This probably doesn't apply to PGDG, but as I recall at least within debian,
there's a preference to build either --with-... or --without-.., so that a
library which happens to be installed doesn't create a package with an
unintentional dependency, or a library which is not installed or something
broken/incompatible doesn't result in a package without the intended
dependency.

--
Justin