On 9 Nov. 2016 06:37, "Yury Zhuravlev" <u.zhurav...@postgrespro.ru> wrote: > >> When I run cmake without options, it seems to do opportunistic feature >> checking. For example, it turns on OpenSSL or Python support if it can >> find it, otherwise it turns it off. We need this to be deterministic. >> Without options, choose the basic feature set, require all other >> features to be turned on explicitly, fail if they can't be found. >> Whatever the Autoconf-based build does now has been fairly deliberately >> tuned, so there should be very little reason to deviate from that. > > This approach I see only in Postgres project and not fully understood. > Can you explain me more what reasons led to this approach?
It's predictable. The default has the same result for everyone. I quite like it myself.
