Re: meson: Non-feature feature options

Hi,


On 2/8/23 19:23, Andres Freund wrote:
>> 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'.
> Or add 'auto' as a combo option, and handle the value of the auto_features
> option ourselves?

If we do it like this, meson's --auto-features option won't work for 
uuid. Is this something we want to consider?

Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft