Hi,
On 2/8/23 13:45, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
The problem is that these features now cannot be automatically enabled
and behave annoyingly different from other feature options.
Agreed.
For the 'ssl' option, we have deprecated the --with-openssl option in
configure and replaced it with --with-ssl, in anticipation of other
SSL implementations. None of that ever happened or is currently
planned AFAICT. So I suggest that we semi-revert this, so that we can
make 'openssl' an auto option in meson.
+1
For the 'uuid' option, I'm not sure what the best way to address this
would. We could establish a search order of libraries that is used if
no specific one is set (similar to libreadline, libedit, in a way).
So we'd have one option 'uuid' that is of type feature with default
'auto' and another option, say, 'uuid-library' of type 'combo'.
Your suggestion looks good and TCL already has a similar implementation
with what you suggested:
option('pltcl', type : 'feature', value: 'auto',
description: 'build with TCL support')
option('tcl_version', type : 'string', value : 'tcl',
description: 'specify TCL version')
Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft
