Re: meson: Non-feature feature options

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 at 12:14, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On 21.02.23 17:32, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> >>> 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.
> > Yes, we can set it like `uuidopt = get_option('auto_features')`.
> > However, if someone wants to set 'auto_features' to 'disabled' but
> > 'uuid' to 'enabled'(to find at least one working uuid library); this
> > won't be possible. We can add 'enabled', 'disabled and 'auto' choices
> > to 'uuid' combo option to make all behaviours possible but adding
> > 'uuid' feature option and 'uuid_library' combo option seems better to
> > me.
>
> 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?

Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft