Re: Meson0.57.2 setup failed with option -Duuid=ossp

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Sept 2025 at 04:15, Oreo Yang <oreo.yang@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> When i execute meson setup, an error occurred "meson.build:1610:4: ERROR: Expected 1 arguments, got 2."
> I saw [1] discussing about the meson minimun version which is 0.57.2.
> So I have attached a patch try to fix that.
>
> uuid = dependency('ossp-uuid', 'uuid', required: false)
> About dependency() ,"Since 0.60.0 more than one name can be provided, they will be tried in order and the first name
tobe found will be used."[2]
 
>
>
> ------------------
> highgo@ubuntu:~/postgres$ meson setup build --prefix=$PWD/inst -Duuid=ossp
> The Meson build system
> Version: 0.57.2
> ...
> Checking for function "SSL_CTX_set_keylog_callback" with dependency openssl: YES
> meson.build:1610:4: ERROR: Expected 1 arguments, got 2.
> ------------------

Nice catch! I am able to reproduce the problem and I confirm that the
patch fixes it.

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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft