Re: meson: Non-feature feature options

Hi,

On 2023-03-13 21:57:22 +0300, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 21:04, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 07:27:18AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > I have committed it like this.
> >
> > I noticed that after 6a30027, if you don't have the OpenSSL headers
> > installed, 'meson setup' will fail:
> >
> >         meson.build:1195:4: ERROR: C header 'openssl/ssl.h' not found
> >
> > Shouldn't "auto" cause Postgres to be built without OpenSSL if the required
> > headers are not present?
> 
> Yes, I tested again and it is working as expected on my end. It
> shouldn't fail like that unless the 'ssl' option is set to 'openssl'.
> Is it possible that it has been set to 'openssl' without you noticing?

It worked for the dependency() path, but not the cc.find_library() path. See
the patch I just sent.

Greetings,

Andres Freund