Re: meson: Non-feature feature options

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: meson: Non-feature feature options
Date: 2023-02-20 19:42:49
Message-ID: 20230220194249.lkirdwhosjq6zdkc@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-02-20 19:53:53 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 20.02.23 13:33, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> > I added SSL and UUID patches. UUID patch has two different fixes:
> >
> > 1 - v1-0002-meson-Refactor-UUID-option.patch: Adding 'auto' choice to
> > 'uuid' combo option.
> >
> > 2 - v1-0002-meson-Refactor-UUID-option-with-uuid_library.patch: Making
> > 'uuid' feature option and adding new 'uuid_library' combo option with
> > ['auto', 'bsd', 'e2fs', 'ossp'] choices. If 'uuid_library' is set other
> > than 'auto' and it can't be found, build throws an error.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I like the second approach, with a 'uuid' feature option. As you wrote
> earlier, adding an 'auto' choice to a combo option doesn't work fully like a
> real feature option.

But we can make it behave exactly like one, by checking the auto_features
option.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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