Re: meson: Non-feature feature options

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.