Re: meson: Non-feature feature options

On 22.03.23 11:16, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 11:12, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14.03.23 15:07, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
>>>> I think the uuid side of this is making this way too complicated. I'm
>>>> content leaving this as a manual option for now.
>>>>
>>>> There is much more value in making the ssl option work automatically.
>>>> So I would welcome a patch that just makes -Dssl=auto work smoothly,
>>>> perhaps using the "trick" that Andres described.
>>> I tried to implement what we did for ssl to uuid as well, do you have
>>> any comments?
>>
>> For the uuid option, we have three different choices. What should be
>> the search order and why?
>
> Docs [1] say that: OSSP uuid library is not well maintained, and is
> becoming increasingly difficult to port to newer platforms; so we can
> put 'uuid-ossp' to the end. Between 'uuid-e2fs' and 'uuid-bsd', I
> believe 'uuid-e2fs' is used more often than 'uuid-bsd'.
> Hence, they can be ordered as 'uuid-e2fs', 'uuid-bsd', 'uuid-ossp'.
>
> Does that make sense?

I think that's fair.